DirectorGeorges Lautner
Release Year1964
Main Cast
Louis de FunèsJacques, le cousin de Jérôme, dit « Jockey-Jack », petit truand
Michel SerraultJérôme Martinet, contrebassiste et comédien
Mireille DarcRockie « la Braise », femme entretenue
Francis BlancheL'oncle Absalon, le savant farfelu
Maurice BiraudJo Arengeot, un petit truand sortant de prison
Darry CowlGratiopoulos, le milliardaire à la soiréeSynopsis
Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.
