Genre: Comedy /  more » User Ratings: 6.4 (195 votes)  more »   Production Co: FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Distributor: FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Summary: Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.  more »

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Filmmakers: Robert Dhéry - Director / Writer (screenplay) (story), Pierre Tchernia - Co-Director / Writer (screenplay) (story), Alfred Adam - Writer (dialogue) (screenplay), Henri Diamant-Berger - Producer, Marcel Maurey - Producer, Ghislain Cloquet - Cinematographer, Gérard Calvi - Composer, Lucien Aguettand - Production Designer, Albert Jurgenson - Editor  more »

Cast overview, first billed only (view more cast)		STARmeter™
	Alfred Adam ... Alfred	136,890
	Colette Brosset ... Paulette Perrignon	82,515
	Robert Burnier ... Houche	284,423
	Pierre Dac ... le colonel	158,332
	Éliane d'Almeida¹ ... Simone	383,585