Courte-tête is a French film realized by Norbert Carbonnaux, release in 1956.
♦ Synopsis :
A brilliance swindler : Olivier Parker, engages a small salesman of pipes, Amédée, to swindle provincial naive : Ferdinand Galiveau, chicken merchant. Renamed Teddy Morton and become jockey, Amédée must assemble a mare on which Ferdinand, advised by Parker, owes miser. Absolutely convinced of its mystification, Parker put on a dead loss, who loses, of course, whereas at the last Galiveau time having put on an outsider, gains a fortune. It does not remain any more in Parker but to find another pigeon.
♦ Specification sheet :
- Title : Courte-tête
- Realization : Norbert Carbonnaux
- Scenario : Albert Simonin
- Adaptation : Albert Simonin, Norbert Carbonnaux
- Dialogue : Michel Audiard
- Production assistant : Jacques Deray, Georges Lautner
- Images : Roger Dormoy
- Operator : René Ribault
- Music : Jean Prodomidès
- Decorations : Jacques Colombier, assisted of Robert Guisgand
- Editing : Jacqueline Thiedot, assisted of Colette Charbonneau
- Sound : Jean-Claude Marchetti
- Make-up : Marcel Bordenave
- Photographer of tray : Jean Magis
- Script-girl : Marie Darricades
- General manager : Eric Geiger
- Interior designer : Roger Joint
- Shooting from May 28th till July 15th, 1956 in studios "Photosonor"
- Other title : Les ramasse-miettes
- Film 35mm, black and white
- Edition : Laboratory Eclair - Recording Simo
- Leader of production : Jean-Paul Guibert
- Director of production : André Cultet
- Production : Intermondia Films (France)
- Distribution : J. Arthur Rank
- Duratiob : 85mn
- Genre : Comedy
- First presentation the 27/02/1957
- Visa of exploitation : 16335
♦ Distribution :
- Louis de Funès : The father Graziani, false monk, Prosper the false stable boy, the false colonel Luc De La Frapinière
- Fernand Gravey : Olivier Parker, the false equestrian trainere, notorious swindler
- Jean Richard : Ferdinand Galiveau, poulterer and racegoer
- Jacques Duby : Amédée Lucas, said : Teddy Morton false jockey
- Darry Cowl : The desk clerk of the hotel "Lutécia"
- Micheline Dax : Lola d'Héricourt, the adventuress
- Max Révol : The general of Empois
- Robert Murzeau : The tailor also racegoer
- Jacques Dufilho : The stable boy
- Annick Tanguy : Magdalena, the dancer of mambo
- Hubert Deschamps : The presenter of the nightclub
- Pascal Mazzotti : The butler of the restaurant
- Jacques Ary : The inspector
- Christian Brocard : A man who sells equestrian pipes
- Fulbert Janin : The lieutenant Ceccaldi, the prescription
- Michel Dancourt : The person in charge of the alarm clock to the hotel
- Anna-Maria Sandri : Handmaid of the hotel
- Jenny Astruc : Handmaid of the hotel
- Harry Max : Cyril Monvoisin, trainer of Fred Campuche
- Guy Bedos : Fred Campuche, jockey
- Bernard Musson : A bellhop
- Robert Mercier : A doorman of the hotel
- Robert Le Fort : A stable-lad
- Paul Bisciglia : A hunter of the hotel
- Max Dalban : The big man of the hammam
- Monsieur Turbolaria : Him even in owner of horses
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