Film
Slightly Ahead
1956Directed by Norbert Carbonnaux
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
About Slightly Ahead
- Comedy
Synopsis
A brilliant swindler, Olivier Parker, hires a small-time pipe salesman, Amédée, to swindle a naive provincial, Ferdinand Galiveau, a chicken merchant. Renamed Teddy Morton and now a jockey, Amédée must ride a mare on which Ferdinand, advised by Parker, must bet. Absolutely convinced of his mystification, Parker bets on an oddball who, of course, loses, while at the last minute Galiveau, having bet on an outsider, wins a fortune. All Parker has to do is find another sucker.
- Director
- Norbert Carbonnaux
- Writers
- Michel Audiard
- Albert Simonin
- Norbert Carbonnaux
- Original title
- Courte-tête
Principal cast
In billing order- Louis de FunèsLe père Graziani, faux religieux ; Prosper le faux garçon d'écurie ; le faux colonel Luc de La Frapinière
- Fernand GraveyOlivier Parker, le faux entraîneur hippique, escroc
- Jean RichardFerdinand Galiveau, marchand de volailles et turfiste
- Jacques DubyAmédée Lucas / Teddy Morton
- Darry CowlLe réceptionniste de l'hôtel Lutécia
- Micheline DaxLola d'Héricourt, une aventurière
