Slightly Ahead

Slightly Ahead (1956)

Comedy

A brilliant swindler, Olivier Parker, hires a small-time pipe salesman, Amédée, to swindle a naive provincial, Ferdinand Galiveau, a chicken merchant. Renamed Teddy Morton and now a jockey, Amédée must ride a mare on which Ferdinand, advised by Parker, must bet. Absolutely convinced of his mystification, Parker bets on an oddball who, of course, loses, while at the last minute Galiveau, having bet on an outsider, wins a fortune. All Parker has to do is find another sucker.

Director: Norbert Carbonnaux

Casts

	Louis de Funès as Le père Graziani, faux religieux ; Prosper le faux garçon d'écurie ; le faux colonel Luc de La Frapinière
	Fernand Gravey as Olivier Parker, le faux entraîneur hippique, escroc
	Jean Richard as Ferdinand Galiveau, marchand de volailles et turfiste
	Jacques Duby as Amédée Lucas / Teddy Morton
	Darry Cowl as Le réceptionniste de l'hôtel Lutécia
	Micheline Dax as Lola d'Héricourt, une aventurière
	Jacques Dufilho as Le garçon d'écurie
	Max Révol as Le général des Empois
	Robert Murzeau as Le tailleur, également turfiste
	Guy Bedos as Fred Campuche, le jockey
	Max Dalban as Le gros homme du hammam

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