A whole town becomes secret agents and nobody asked for this.
The inhabitants of a small provincial town are requisitioned to take part in the French army's major maneuvers. A foreign spy takes advantage of these maneuvers to steal secret documents. The pursuit and capture of the spy and his accomplices are successfully carried out by all those taking part in the maneuvers.
Direction
Sandoz wrangles an entire village into coherent suspense.
Practical Effects
Real military maneuvers as accidental action choreography.
Director
Gérard Sandoz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during France's post-war rearmament and Algerian War tensions, the film's blurring of civilian and military life carried uneasy contemporary weight.
Howard Vernon, playing the spy Kervec, would become a cult icon in Jesús Franco's horror films—this is him in rare respectable mode.
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