Overview
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.
Cast
- 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