Atlantic Wall

1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.

Adventure Comedy War

Bourvil

(Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur)

Sophie Desmarets

(Maria Duchemin, sister of Léon)

Peter McEnery

(Jeff, the downed British airman)

Sara Franchetti

(Juliette Duchemin, daughter of Léon)

Jean Poiret

(Armand, resistance leader and double agent)

Reinhard Kolldehoff

(Lieutenant Heinrich Jakobus Steinbichler aka 'Totor')

Pino Caruso

(Lieutenant Friedrich, Rommel's driver)

Terry-Thomas

(Commander Perry of British HQ)

Roland Lesaffre

(Fake resistance fighter full of tics)

Jacques Balutin

(Resistant gendarme)

Robert Le Béal

(Officer of the British HQ)

Jacques Préboist

Jess Hahn

(British colonel)

Guy Delorme

(German sailor)

Jackie Sardou

(Angèle Charlus, wife of the painter)

Frank Williams

Jean-Pierre Zola

(Colonel Muller)

Georges Staquet

(Hippolyte, leader of the resistance)

John Eppler

Patrick Préjean

(Officer of the British HQ)

Annabel Leventon

(Sybil, British non-commissioned officer)

Janine Dill

Antoine Baud

Anthony Stuart

(Officer of the British HQ)

Pierre Decazes

Roger Lumont

(French chef in London)

Michel Robin

(Shoemaker of shoes for Rommel)

Rudy Lenoir

(German non-commissioned officer)

Jean Rupert

(British HQ order)

Fernand Guiot

(German corporal of 'Totor')

William Mervyn

(Protestant Bishop, Jeff's father)

Billy Kearns

(Training camp commander)

Marcel Gassouk

(German corporal)

Jean Moulard

(Gestapo policeman)

Gerald Campion

Peter Myers

(Colonel in the R.A.F.)

Roger Guillo

(Prunier, cook in London)

Paul Savatier

Roger Mailles

Bernard Saint-Jacques

Gilbert Roimarmier

(German non-commissioned officer)

René Rall

(Gestapo policeman)

Roger Trapp

(Tramp in prison)

Guy Allombert

(German officer)

Bill Horsley

(R.A.F. orderly)

Yvon Lec

(Gédéon Charlus)

Jacques Marbeuf

(German non-commissioned officer)

Rico López

Norman Mitchell

Stephen Yardley

Maurice Auzel

(British soldier (uncredited))