The old Valmorin died 200 years ago. The notary tells the family about the inheritance: the one who is terminally ill will receive the money. They all try their luck with getting ill before the other so one family member pretends to be deaf, another pretends to have a terrible back ache and so on...
Acting
Louis de Funès losing his mind as the increasingly desperate creditor
Costume
Francis Blanche's aggressively American cowboy getup in rural France
Writing
Escalating fake disabilities becoming indistinguishable from real ones
Director
Jean Bastia
Louis de Funès
Ange Galopin, creditor who wants to recover the money
Francis Blanche
William Foster Valmorin, American
Pierre Dudan
Pierre Valmorin, Swiss composer
Jean Richard
Jérôme Valmorin, explorer
Robert Manuel
Luigi Valmorin aka 'Valmorino'
Mireille Perrey
Maman
Mario David
Masseur
Mathilde Casadesus
Mathilde Rouet, née Valmorin
Habib Benglia
Hannibal Valmorin
Jean-Paul Rouland
Doctor Schuster
Léonce Corne
Maître Meyer
Max Elloy
Simpson, Pierre's butler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title parodies 'Some Like It Hot' but the French original 'Les Tortillards' refers to slow local trains—fitting for a film about people pretending to move slowly.
This 1960 release captures peak de Funès before his '70s superstardom, when he was still stealing scenes as supporting chaos agent rather than lead.
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