The Devil by the Tail
07/02/1969
2h



In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of the sabotaged cars belongs to a bank robber. The hotel staff wants the robber out, but they also want to keep his ill-gotten money.
Cast


Yves Montand
Le baron César Maricorne


Madeleine Renaud
La marquise


Maria Schell
La comtesse Diane


Jean Rochefort
Le comte Georges


Jean-Pierre Marielle
Jean-Jacques Leroy-Martin, le "play-boy"


Marthe Keller
Amélie, baronne de Coustines


Claude Piéplu
Monsieur Patin


Xavier Gélin
Charly - le garagiste


Jacques Balutin
Max - le premier complice


Pierre Tornade
Schwartz - le second complice


Tanya Lopert
Cookie


Clotilde Joano
La comtesse Jeanne, la cousine pianiste
Janine Berdin
Madame Passereau
Charles Mallet
Le commissaire
Eddy Roos
Monsieur Passereau
Michèle Moyenin
Une passante à la recherche du baron César


Philippe de Broca
Un passant suédois
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