Dandelions by the Roots (1964)
Comedy, Crime
Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.
Director: Georges Lautner
Writers: Georges Lautner, Clarence Weff, Michel Audiard
The Cast
Louis de Funès
Jockey Jack
Michel Serrault
Jérôme Martinet, actor and cousin of Jockey Jack
Mireille Darc
'Rockie la Braise'
Francis Blanche
Absalon
Maurice Biraud
Jo Arengeot
Darry Cowl
Gratiopoulos
Raymond Meunier
'La Douane'
Hubert Deschamps
General Fréderic Cédille
Gianni Musy
Riton aka "Pom Chips"
Barbara Brand
Actress who plays Sonia
Paola Barbara
Simone Landry
Guest of Christine
Colette Régis
Christine
Malka Ribowska
The Countess
Jacqueline Rivière
Dorothée
Yves Barsacq
Police inspector
Charles Bouillaud
Léon, concierge of the Théâtre de Paris
Michel Dacquin
Pastor
Michel Duplaix
Prop master
Guy Grosso
Emíle, bartender
Roger Paschy
Prop master
Émile Riandreys
Stage manager of the theater
Venantino Venantini
Pierre Michon, theater actor
Madeleine Barbulée
Aunt Ophélie (voice)
Raymone
Palmyre, the madwoman
Marcel Bernier
Prop master (uncredited)
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