De Funès: "La Grande Vadrouille" (2/2)

(Continued from yesterday's article.)

They don't get caught by the Germans, and they have to share the same room for the night in room n°9. Stanislas (De Funès) goes eating. Meanwhile, the 9 went upside-down, becoming a 6, as well as 9 becomes 6 (how unlikely!), so that when he comes back to his room, De Funès is with Major Achbach – whom he thinks to be Augustin Bouvet (Bourvil)…



This is a piece of the French cinema history.

In the other storyline, that of the British pilots whose plane was shot down above Paris, the pilots are brought into a hospital (namely in the Hospice de Beaunes), where they are hid as war invalids…



The old sister is a tough one!
Il vaut mieux être malade ici que bien portant ailleurs. (…) Langue blanche, yeux jaune, nez rouge : le foie ! (…) Il faudra quand même surveiller ce foie !

And finally, a scene which contains one of the most famous lines from Bourvil : "Mes souliers, mon vélo…". Silly.