The Bamboo Stroke
1963 film
- Jean Boyer
- Robert Dorfmann
- François Périer
- Micheline Presle
- Jean Richard
Production
companies
companies
- Silver Films
- Films Jean Boyer
- Les Films Corona
Release date
- 12 April 1963 (1963-April-12)
Running time
The Bamboo Stroke (French: Le coup de bambou) is a 1963 French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring François Périer, Micheline Presle and Jean Richard.[1] The title is a French expression for something that is painfully expensive. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani.
Synopsis
Following the sale of her bistro, a young woman leaves the money from the transaction in a taxi. In order to avoid her husband's reproaches, she feigns amnesia.
Cast
- François Périer as Léon Brissac
- Micheline Presle as Angèle Brissac
- Jean Richard as Albert
- Noël Roquevert as Dr. Séverin
- Jacques Dufilho as Le chauffeur de taxi
- Jean Lefebvre as L'auvergnat
- Paul Bisciglia
- Jacques Dynam
- Claudie Laurence
- Sophie Mallet
- Lucienne Marchand
- Dominique Zardi
- Léon Zitrone
References
- ^ Quinlan p.385
Bibliography
- Quinlan, David. Quinlan's Illustrated Directory of Film Stars. Batsford, 1996.
External links
- The Bamboo Stroke at IMDb
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Films directed by Jean Boyer
- Calais-Dover (1931)
- Monsieur, Madame and Bibi (1932)
- Antonia (1935)
- Counsel for Romance (1936)
- On the Road (1936)
- Mother Love (1938)
- My Priest Among the Rich (1938)
- Cocoanut (1939)
- Extenuating Circumstances (1939)
- Miquette (1940)
- Serenade (1940)
- The Acrobat (1941)
- Romance of Paris (1941)
- Frederica (1942)
- Prince Charming (1942)
- At Your Command, Madame (1942)
- Bolero (1942)
- The Lucky Star (1943)
- The Devil Goes to Boarding School (1944)
- That's Not the Way to Die (1946)
- The Adventures of Casanova (1947)
- Mademoiselle Has Fun (1948)
- All Roads Lead to Rome (1949)
- Brilliant Waltz (1949)
- The Prize (1950)
- We Will All Go to Paris (1950)
- Mr. Peek-a-Boo (1951)
- Monte Carlo Baby (1951)
- An Artist with Ladies (1952)
- Crazy for Love (1952)
- Women of Paris (1953)
- A Hundred Francs a Second (1953)
- My Seven Little Sins (1954)
- The Country of the Campanelli (1954)
- Madelon (1955)
- The Terror with Women (1956)
- Fernandel the Dressmaker (1956)
- Mademoiselle and Her Gang (1957)
- Sénéchal the Magnificent (1957)
- The Lord's Vineyard (1958)
- Nina (1959)
- The Indestructible (1959)
- It's Not My Business (1962)
- Virginie (1962)
- The Bamboo Stroke (1963)
- Relax Darling (1964)
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