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The Sucker

1965 · 111 min

A breezy, chaotic road comedy full of mistaken identities and slapstick chases that keeps you smiling without demanding much thought.

Tagline
The funniest fraud a fall-guy ever fell for!
Overview
In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friend's car from Naples to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
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How it feels

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Tone
  • lightstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • deception
  • crime
  • friendship
  • class
  • survival
Places
  • road trip
  • big city
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror0
Humour8
Realism5
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight2

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Details

Genres
comedy, crime
Directed by
Gérard Oury
Written by
Marcel Jullian, Gérard Oury
Starring
Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Venantino Venantini, Henri Génès, Beba Lončar, Alida Chelli, Lando Buzzanca, Jacques Eyser
Music
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Cinematography
Henri Decaë
Runtime
111 min
Country
Spain, France, Italy
Languages
French

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