Short Head
1956 French film
- 10 October 1956 (1956-10-10)
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Short Head (French: Courte tête) is a 1956 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux, written by Michel Audiard and starring Fernand Gravey, Micheline Dax and Jean Richard.[1] The film is known under the alternative title Photo Finish.[2]
It was shot at the Photosonor Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier.
Synopsis
Two swindlers try to cheat a provincial poultry magnate by getting him to bet on a sure loser in a major horse race.
Cast
- Fernand Gravey as Olivier Parker, a notorious crook. posing as an equestrian coach
- Micheline Dax as Lola d'Héricourt, a venturer
- Jean Richard as Ferdinand Galiveau, poultry dealer and racegoer
- Jacques Duby as Amédée Lucas aka fake jockey "Teddy Morton"
- Darry Cowl as the receptionist at the hotel "Lutécia"
- Hubert Deschamps as Le serveur 'Gay Paris'
- Max Révol as the general agent for starch
- Robert Murzeau as the taylor, also a racegoer
- Jacques Dufilho as the stable-boy
- Harry-Max as Cyril Mauvoisin, l'entraîneur
- Pascal Mazzotti as Le maître d'hôtel
- Annick Tanguy as La danseuse de Mambo
- Louis de Funès as Father Graziani, a fake monk
- Guy Bedos as Fred Campuche
- Paul Bisciglia as Un chasseur de l'hôte
References
Bibliography
- Ginette Vincendeau. Stars and Stardom in French Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000.
External links
- Short Head at IMDb
- Courte tête (1956) at the Films de France
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Films by Michel Audiard
- Leontine (1968)
- A Golden Widow (1969)
- Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause ! (1970)
- Comment réussir quand on est con et pleurnichard (1974)
- Mission in Tangier (1949)
- Beware of Blondes (1950)
- Darling Caroline (1951)
- Mr. Peek-a-Boo (1951)
- My Wife Is Formidable (1951)
- The Man in My Life (1952)
- Massacre in Lace (1952)
- She and Me (1952)
- The Long Teeth (1953)
- The Most Wanted Man (1953)
- The Three Musketeers (1953)
- April Fools' Day (1954)
- The Cheerful Squadron (1954)
- Love in a Hot Climate (1954)
- Quay of Blondes (1954)
- Gas-Oil (1955)
- Blood to the Head (1956)
- Mannequins of Paris (1956)
- Short Head (1956)
- Fugitive in Saigon (1957)
- Retour de manivelle (1957)
- Speaking of Murder (1957)
- Three Days to Live (1957)
- Le désordre et la nuit (1958)
- Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
- Les Misérables (1958)
- The Possessors (1958)
- Archimède le clochard (1959)
- Babette Goes to War (1959)
- Eyes of Love (1959)
- Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959)
- Rue des prairies (1959)
- Too Late to Love (1959)
- The Baron of the Locks (1960)
- Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
- The Old Guard (1960)
- The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
- Famous Love Affairs (1961)
- The Lions Are Loose (1961)
- The President (1961)
- Taxi for Tobruk (1961)
- The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
- Emile's Boat (1962)
- The Gentleman from Epsom (1962)
- A Monkey in Winter (1962)
- Any Number Can Win (1963)
- Carom Shots (1963)
- Les Tontons flingueurs (1963)
- The Trip to Biarritz (1963)
- La Chasse à l'homme (1964)
- The Great Spy Chase (1964)
- Greed in the Sun (1964)
- Salad by the Roots (1964)
- Une souris chez les hommes (1964)
- Les Bons Vivants (1965)
- Crime on a Summer Morning (1965)
- La Métamorphose des cloportes (1965)
- Tender Scoundrel (1966)
- All Mad About Him (1967)
- An Idiot in Paris (1967)
- Johnny Banco (1967)
- A Little Virtuous (1968)
- Pasha (1968)
- Under the Sign of the Bull (1969)
- Incorrigible (1975)
- Body of My Enemy (1976)
- The Big Operator (1976)
- Animal (1977)
- Death of a Corrupt Man (1977)
- Cop or Hood (1979)
- Les Égouts du paradis (1979)
- Le Guignolo (1980)
- Jupiter's Thigh (1980)
- Il lupo e l'agnello (1980)
- Garde à Vue (1981)
- The Professional (1981)
- Espion, lève-toi (1982)
- Deadly Circuit (1983)
- Le Marginal (1983)
- Dog Day (1984)
- Les Morfalous (1984)
- La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding (1985)
- He Died with His Eyes Open (1985)
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