Oscar is a film French realized by Edouard Molinaro, release in 1967.
♦ Synopsis :
Christian Martin, modest employee of the promoter Bertrand Barnier, comes to surprise his owner with the jump of the bed to ask for the hand of his daughter to him and to reveal to him, while passing, that it was constituted by advance savings of 64 million by falsifying entries…
Progressively with the course of the accounts of his employee whom he threatens to deliver to the police force, Bertrand Barnier becomes moreover more hysterical and the two characters devote themselves in turn to mutual insurance companies swindle around a bag containing a bundle of tickets, corresponding to the concealed sum, unceasingly replaced by the simple bag of a baroness.
Bertrand Barnier makes a new crisis of apoplexy when it tries to find this bag by telephoning the baron himself…
♦ Specification sheet :
- Title : Oscar
- Realization : Édouard Molinaro
- Scenario : According to the detail of Claude Magnier
- Adaptation : Jean Halain, Édouard Molinaro, Louis De Funès
- Additional dialogue : Jean Halain
- Production assistants : Jean-Marie Poiré, Philippe Monnier
- Production : Alain Poiré for Gaumont International
- Director of production : Irénée Leriche, Robert Sussfeld
- Administrator of production : Guy Azzi
- Decorations : Georges Wakewitch, assisted of Jean Forestier
- Music : Jean Marion and Georges Delerue - (Editions Hortensia)
- Images : Raymond-Pierre Lemoigne
- Operator : Jean Bénézech, Georges Pastier
- Operator assistants : Michel Plebon, Claude Amiot
- Sound : René-Christian Forget
- Perchman : Jean Jak
- Editing : Monique and Robert Isnardon
- Script-girl : Aurore Pasquiss
- Interior designer : Pierre Charron
- Photographer of tray : Jean-Louis Castelli, André Dino
- General manager : Roger Boulais
- Make-up : Anatole Paris
- Hairstyles : Micheline Chaperon
- Property man : Raymond Lemoigne
- Suits : Francesco Smalto for Claude Rich
- Wigs : Carita
- Format : Colors (Eastmancolor) - 2,35:1 (Franscope) - Monophonic sound - 35 mm - Laboratoiry G.T.C
- Credit : Jean Foucher F.L
- French film
- Genre : Comedy
- Duration : 85 minutes
- Date exit : October 11th, 1967 (France)
- Every public
♦ Distribution :
- Louis de Funès : Bertrand Barnier
- Claude Rich : Christian Martin
- Claude Gensac : Germaine Barnier
- Agathe Natanson : Colette Barnier, the girl of Bertrand
- Mario David : Philippe Dubois, the physiotherapist
- Dominique Page : Bernadette, the handmaid become a baroness
- Sylvia Saurel/Noël : Jacqueline Bouillotte, the natural girl of Bertrand
- Paul Préboist : Charles, le majordome
- Germaine Delbat : Charlotte Bouillotte, the mother of Jacqueline
- Roger Van Hool : Oscar, the driver of Bertrand
- Philippe Valauris : The driver of the baron
♦ Around the film :
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Adaptation of one play with success of Claude Magnier, that Louis de Funès interpreted with four recoveries : 1959, 1961, 1971 and 1972.
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The part Oscar was also carried to the screen by John Landis in 1991 under the French title L'Embrouille est dans le sac (Oscar). The roles of Louis De Funès, Claude Gensac and Claude Rich are taken again respectively by Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti and Vincent Spano.
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