When they get wind that Herman Goering wants the Venus de Milo statue removed from the Louvre and added to his private collection of stolen artworks, three Frenchmen decide to take action.
Acting
Michel Galabru's exasperated patriarch energy carries half the film
Direction
Girault keeps farce mechanics tight even when logic doesn't
Costume
Goering's ridiculous uniform game is accidentally accurate
Director
Jean Girault
Francis Perrin
Jacques
Michel Galabru
M. de Beaugenay
Roger Miremont
Francis
Jean-Jacques Moreau
Henri
Claude Piéplu
Le capitaine Leipzig
Jacques Balutin
L'inspecteur adjoint
Jacques Marin
L'inspecteur de police
Katia Tchenko
Trudy, la "souris grise"
Guy Grosso
Le brigadier de gendarmerie
Michel Modo
Le gendarme
Henri Virlogeux
Le gardien du Louvre #2
Hans Verner
Le colonel von Obrecht
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film belongs to a wave of 1970s French comedies that used WWII settings for farce, reflecting a generation processing occupation through humor rather than trauma.
The bizarre title refers to a throwaway visual gag involving a centipede and a tap shoe that test audiences loved so much it became the marketing hook.
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