The Little Bather (1968)

6.6/10 96 min Comedy

Overview

Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...

Cast

Louis de Funès

Louis-Philippe Fourchaume

Andréa Parisy

Marie-Béatrice Fourchaume

Franco Fabrizi

Marcello Cacciaperotti

Michel Galabru

Scipio

Robert Dhéry

André Castagnier

Colette Brosset

Charlotte Castagnier

Pierre Dac

Le ministre

Jacques Legras

Henri Castagnier, le curé

Michèle Alexandre

L'épouse du ministre

Nicole Vervil

La mère du petit Francis

Robert Rollis

Un marin

Georges Adet

Le gardien du chantier

Philippe Dumat

Le joueur de tambour de la fanfare

Gérard Calvi

Le chef de la fanfare

Hélène Dieudonné

La garde-barrière

Pierre Tornade

Jean-Baptiste Castagnier, le gardien de phare

Henri Génès

Le paysan

Georges Bever

Le majordome des Fourchaume (uncredited)

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