Slightly Ahead

Original title: Courte-tête

Duration: 88 min

Release date: 1956-10-10

IMDB

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.

Comedy

Courte-tête

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Louis de Funès

as Le père Graziani, faux religieux ; Prosper le faux garçon d'écurie ; le faux colonel Luc de La Frapinière

as Olivier Parker, le faux entraîneur hippique, escroc

as Ferdinand Galiveau, marchand de volailles et turfiste

as Amédée Lucas / Teddy Morton

as Le réceptionniste de l'hôtel Lutécia

as Lola d'Héricourt, une aventurière

Jacques Dufilho

Jacques Dufilho

as Le garçon d'écurie

as Le général des Empois

as Le tailleur, également turfiste

as Fred Campuche, le jockey

as Le gros homme du hammam

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Jean-Paul Guibert

Jean-Paul Guibert

Director of Photography

Jacqueline Thiédot

Jacqueline Thiédot

Jacques Colombier

Jacques Colombier

Production Design

Production Manager

Unit Production Manager

Assistant Director

Georges Lautner

Georges Lautner

Assistant Director

Robert Guisgand

Robert Guisgand

Assistant Production Design

Marcel Bordenave

Marcel Bordenave

Jean-Claude Marchetti

Jean-Claude Marchetti

Camera Operator

Colette Charbonneau

Colette Charbonneau

Assistant Editor

Norbert Carbonnaux

Norbert Carbonnaux

Norbert Carbonnaux

Norbert Carbonnaux

Jean Prodromidès

Jean Prodromidès

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