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Post by teleadm on Aug 21, 2021 20:14:47 GMT
 17 million Frenchmen can't be wrong! The most viewed movie in France until Titanic in 1997. La grande vadrouille aka Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! 1966, directed by Gerard Oury An RAF bomber crew who thinks it's in Calais accidentally lands in Paris instead, and need help by French Resistance during WW II, those who lead them back is an odd couple, played by French legendary comedians Bourvil and Louis de Funès, an the Englishman is played by Terry-Thomas, who for once let's the others do the comedy and be a smart resourceful guy himself. It's very uneven actually. Hi Teleadm. I saw Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! - dubbed into English, with my late parents and my younger brother at a wonderful, huge old movie palace called the The Savoy Cinema in about 1967. I was all of seven years old but I vividly remember us sitting in the packed cinema howling with laughter at the crazy wartime antics on the screen. People in the audience were literally screaming with laughter. I thought the film was hilarious and that Louis de Funès was the funniest man I had ever seen in my life. On the way home in the car my mother and father were quoting Terry-Thomas, impersonating his voice, and bursting into fits of hysterical giggling. It's an enduring, happy childhood memory that hasn't faded with time, but I'm not how sure the film - a big hit in South Africa back then, which I haven't seen since, would hold up today. The world was different it those days, it was a simpler time. Perhaps my memories are rose tinted, but your mention of this film brought on a rush of nostalgia for a moment. Thank you so much for sharing personal memories! In early video days the were a lot of versions around in questionable qualities. The version I watched was with English subtitles when the French spoke, but non when the Germans spoke, but the picture quality was great.
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