The Devil by the Tail (1969)
In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of the sabotaged cars belongs to a bank robber. The hotel staff wants the robber out, but they also want to keep his ill-gotten money.
- Released
- 1969-02-07
- Genres
- Comedy
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Philippe de Broca
- TMDB rating
- 6.1/10 from 57 votes
Cast
- Yves Montand as Le baron César Maricorne
- Madeleine Renaud as La marquise
- Maria Schell as La comtesse Diane
- Jean Rochefort as Le comte Georges
- Jean-Pierre Marielle as Jean-Jacques Leroy-Martin, le "play-boy"
- Marthe Keller as Amélie, baronne de Coustines
- Claude Piéplu as Monsieur Patin
- Xavier Gélin as Charly - le garagiste
- Jacques Balutin as Max - le premier complice
- Pierre Tornade as Schwartz - le second complice
- Tanya Lopert as Cookie
- Clotilde Joano as La comtesse Jeanne, la cousine pianiste