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5 October 1977 (France) See more »
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A movie about a good-for-nothing stuntman called Mike Gaucher who can't do one single job without something going wrong... See more » | Add synopsis »
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1 win & 1 nomination See more »
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Heavy-handed comedy See more (8 total) »
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jean-Paul Belmondo | ... | Mike Gaucher et Bruno Ferrari |
 | Raquel Welch | ... | Jane Gardner |
| Dany Saval | ... | Doris |
| Raymond Gérôme | ... | Le comte de Saint-Prix |
| Jane Birkin | ... | La vedette féminine |
| Johnny Hallyday | ... | La vedette masculine |
| Yves Mourousi | ... | Himself |
| Charles Gérard | ... | Hyacinthe |
| Claude Chabrol | ... | Le metteur en scène |
| Mario David | ... | Santos, le Gitan |
| Henri Génès | ... | Camille, le patron du bistrot |
| Julien Guiomar | ... | Fechner |
| Aldo Maccione | ... | Sergio Campanese |
| Jacques Alric | ... | Le maître d'hôtel |
| Henri Attal | ... | Un assistant |
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100 min | USA:91 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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After a couple of under performing movies (by Belmondo's high standards anyway), he returns with this movie which was the 5th highest grossing movie of its year in France. See more »
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It all starts with an ugly animated credit sequence focusing on a funky lion. Would that be the Animal in the title? OK, but it's hardly relevant with the character played by Belmondo.
The comedy aims to be wild with Belmondo hamming his double-part full-throttle. It may be funny to a 5-year old; for a grown-up it looks like tired jokes with heavy-handed direction in gross situations (the gay movie-star, the crooked and clumsy stunt double). Raquel Welch is beautiful and quite a relief compared to her partner.
Overall it smells like a big budget dilapidated into big stunt jokes, in turn dwarfed by the would-be burlesque tone. Somehow Claude Zidi must have been thinking the Marx Brothers had become famous for silly over-the-top gags devoid of any subtlety...