Rediscover this great classic of French comedy with Louis de Funès and Bourvil thanks to this superb La Grande Vadrouille Poster!
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Description of this Poster La Grande Vadrouille
La Grande Vadrouille is a 1966 British-French comedy film set in 1942 about French civilians who help the crew of a Royal Air Force bomber shot down over Paris make their way through German-occupied France to safety.
On a summer day in 1942, a lost RAF bomber goes astray over Paris and is shot down by German flak. After planning to meet at the Turkish baths of the Grand Mosque of Paris, the crew parachutes out, but only three of them escape capture. Sir Reginald lands at the Vincennes Zoo and, after being given civilian clothes by a friendly zookeeper, heads to the baths. Peter Cunningham lands on the platform of a house painter, Augustin Bouvet, from where they escape the Germans and are hidden by a puppeteer, Juliette; Augustin goes to the baths on Cunningham’s behalf. Alan MacIntosh lands at the Opéra Garnier, where he is reluctantly helped by the conductor, Stanislas Lefort, who goes to the baths in his place. Meanwhile, German soldiers under Major Achbach furiously pursue the three men and their aides.
After the rendezvous at the baths, Lefort leaves Reginald and Bouvet to arrange MacIntosh’s kidnapping, but by then Achbach has discovered Lefort’s connection to the fugitive airmen and takes him prisoner as he returns to the opera. That evening, Reginald and Bouvet, wearing stolen German uniforms, arrive to search for MacIntosh, and in the confusion of a bombing attempt on a German SS commander, the three of them and Lefort are aided in their escape by Resistance fighters among the opera staff. However, they miss the train that Juliette and Peter are taking to Meursault, from where they can cross the demarcation line into the French Free Zone. Following a blunder, Peter is discovered, arrested, and taken to German headquarters in Meursault. After leaving Paris, Reginald, Lefort, Bouvet, and MacIntosh meet Sister Marie-Odile, a nun whose order is secretly aiding the Resistance. Bouvet and Lefort are sent onward to Meursault to a hotel owned by Juliette’s aunt, but there they nearly run into Achbach, who has gone there to interrogate Cunningham. Disguised as a Feldgendarmerie patrol, they were supposed to cross the demarcation line the next morning, but were unmasked and brought back to Meursault. Reginald and MacIntosh were supposed to cross the line separately by Marie-Odile, hidden in two wine barrels, but due to a communication error, their barrels were diverted to the cellar of Meursault’s headquarters.
After discovering their friends’ presence in the building, the airmen set fire to it and took advantage of the ensuing chaos to free them. With Marie-Odile driving a horse-drawn cart, the fugitives headed to a closed gliding club, where they intended to use the gliders to reach the nearby free zone. Closely pursued by Achbach, they manage to take off just in time, and a final attempt to shoot them down with a machine gun is accidentally foiled by a squinting soldier, allowing them to fly to safety.