While “La Grande Vadrouille” by Gérard Oury is broadcast this evening on France 3, we look back at a small detail that many spectators never noticed at the end of the film.
Considered the best film by Louis de Funès by AlloCiné spectators, La Grande Vadrouille by Gérard Oury is broadcast this evening on France 3.
If you are about to (re)discover this great classic of popular French comedy which marks the second face-to-face between Louis de Funès and Bourvil after Le Corniaud, we recommend that you pay particular attention to 1 hour, 35 minutes and 6 seconds of the feature film, in order to discover a fun little detail that had probably never caught your eye.
– Le Corniaud: pause at 3 minutes and 21 seconds, and look closely at the face of Louis de Funès
At 1 hour, 35 minutes and 6 seconds…
We are almost at the end of the film. The two protagonists (i.e. house painter Augustin Bouvet and conductor Stanislas Lefort) are on the run in occupied France in 1942 after helping English paratroopers hide in Paris. Disguised as German soldiers and accompanied by two dogs, they pretend to be a patrol and try to escape through the countryside.
Unfortunately for them, because of the flair of their four-legged companions, they end up coming across the real patrol, and the character of Louis de Funès finds himself trapped. In order to get him out of trouble, his sidekick fires a shot into the air, which has the effect of sowing discord among the soldiers… and the dogs!
… look closely at the soldier to the right of Louis de Funès!
It is at this precise moment that we advise you to pay close attention, and observe what is happening to the right of your screen, right next to Louis de Funès. As our Faux Raccord experts had already observed in their program dedicated to the film, we can easily see that in the excitement of the scene, one of the German shepherds attacks an extra, and bites his arm.
The poor actor, taken by surprise, immediately releases his arm, and the little incident goes unnoticed enough to have been kept in the edit without the sequence needing to be shot again.
Undoubtedly completely unintentional, it is one of those little filming hazards that are difficult to control, and ultimately contributes to the authenticity of the scene.
Have you spotted any other errors in La Grande Vadrouille?
(Re)discover the Faux Raccord dedicated to the film…
