The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation (1965)

Directed by

Friz Freleng, Gerry Chiniquy

Genre

animation

Country

United States

Runtime

6 min

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An inspector and his assistant guard a big diamond. They accidentally give it to a three-headed thief. The inspector tries to get it back but keeps running into trouble.

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What happens

The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation is the first short in the Inspector series of theatrical cartoons. A total of 34 entries were produced between 1965 and 1969. The film was released in December 1965. In the film, the Inspector and his assistant Sgt. Deux Deux are guarding are guarding an enormous diamond. The Inspector accidentally hands it over to a three-headed thief. Each of the thief's heads has a different personality, and apparently a different ethnicity. The Inspector's initial attempts to regain the diamond are failures, but the thief loses the diamond due to a hole in his pocket. The Inspector retrieves the diamond, and the thief steals it for a second time. Following a confrontation in a hotel, the inspector accidentally swallows the diamond. The diamond is soon surgically removed, and the Inspector is left wincing in pain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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