The Big Restaurant (1966)

Original title

Le Grand Restaurant

Directed by

Jacques Besnard

Genre

comedy film, comedy thriller

Country

France

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

6

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 564 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The owner of a fancy Parisian restaurant gets caught up in a kidnapping. He must find the missing president who was dining there.

playfulchaoticlightheartedfreneticfarcewhimsicalquick-witted

What happens

The Big Restaurant (French: Le grand restaurant) is a French comedy thriller film from 1966, directed by Jacques Besnard, written by Jean Halain and Louis de Funès and starring Louis de Funès and Bernard Blier. The film is known under the titles The Restaurant or The Big Restaurant (international English title), What's Cooking in Paris (US), El gran restaurante (Spain), Das große Restaurant (East Germany), Oscar hat die Hosen voll (West Germany), Grand restaurant pana Septima (Czechoslovakia) and Chi ha rubato il presidente? (Italy). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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