Six heures à perdre is a French film realized by Alex Joffre and Jean Lévitte, release in 1947.

Personal comments : Louis de Funès is marked in the credits, he appears :

- 8 seconds at 8 minutes and 33 seconds after the beginning of the movie, he says :
'' Mon excellence à fait bon voyage ? ''
'' Pardon ''
- 5 seconds at 8 minutes and 47 seconds after the beginning of the movie, he says :
'' Son excellence ne me confie pas sa valise ? ''

♦ Synopsis :

It is sometimes regrettable to be it double of a personality. Thus this traveller, who to kill time between two correspondences of railroad, decides to make a turn downtown. Taken for its “Excellence” Léopold de Witt, it is brought to play a beneficial part for the owners of the sumptuous private mansion of its “Excellence”. What does not prevent its death at the exit, cut down by two individuals who note too late of their mistake.

♦ Specification sheet :

Title : Six heures à perdre
Realization : Alex Joffé and Jean levitte
Scenario, Adaptation, Dialogue : Alex Joffé and Jean levitte
Production assistant : Bolin and Dagmart
Images : Pierre Montazel
Operator : Roger Dormoy, assisted of Robert Foucard, Roland Paillas, Raymond Letouzey
Music : Henri Dutilleux, with the orchestra of the society of the concerts of the academy, supervised by André Girard
Decorations : Guy De Gastyne assisted of André Robert
Model and Decorations : Paul-Louis Boutié
Sound : Maurice Carrouet
Editing : Madeleine Gug, Denise Baby
Script-girl : Henriette Vérité
Make-up : Mejinsky
General manager : Roger Rogelys
Shooting in the studios Pathé
Film 35mm, black and white
Recording on system R.C.A
Production : Pathé Cinema (France)
Director of production : Maurice Billet
Delegated producer : René Guissart
Duration : 90 mn
First presentation the 22/01/1947
Genre : Comedy drama

♦ Distribution :

Louis de Funès : The driver of his Excellence : Léopold De Witt
André Luguet : The traveler and his Excellence : Léopold De Witt
Dany Robin : Rosy
Denise Grey : Mme de Witt, the woman of her Excellence
Jacqueline Pierreux : Simone
Paulette Dubost : Annette
Luce Fabiole : The traveler
Marguerite De Morlaye : The dowager
Jean-Jacques Delbo : Claude
Pierre Larquey : Joseph
Jean Gaven : Antoine
François Joux : The man in the envelope
Jean-Jacques Rouff : The second man
Robert Seller : The mayor
Michel Seldow : The bishop
Henri Vilbert : The customs officer
Marcel Lévesque : The general
Albert Michel : The carrier
Jean Richard : The policeman