King of Hearts (1966 film)
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King of Hearts (original French title: Le Roi de Coeur) is a French film about a town in France that has been evacuated due to a bomb placed by the German army. The town's insane asylum is accidentally unlocked as the Germans are leaving and the inmates take over the town.
Plot summary
This 1966 film, directed by Philippe de Broca, stars Alan Bates as Charles Plumpick, a kilt-wearing Scottish soldier who is sent by his commanding officer to disarm the bomb. Plumpick, an army ornithology specialist in charge of carrier pigeons, is sent because he is one of the only men in the unit able to speak French.
When Plumpick enters the town, he unknowingly leaves the door to the insane asylum open while being chased by the Germans. When the Germans have left the town, all of the inmates leave the asylum and take over the town, working in the shops and living in the houses.
Having announced earlier to the former inmates that he was the King of Hearts, Plumpick is treated as the king and is subject to kingly duties as he frantically tries to find the bomb before it goes off.
The last scene is the image of Plumpick stading naked in front of the asylum with his pigeon cage, begging to be let in.
Cast includes
- Pierre Brasseur
- Jean-Claude Brialy
- Geneviève Bujold
- Adolfo Celi
- Françoise Christophe
- Julien Guiomar
- Micheline Presle
- Michel Serrault
- Alan Bates
- Palau
- Jacques Balutin
- Pier Paolo Capponi
- Madeleine Clervanne
- Marc Dudicourt
- Daniel Boulanger - uncredited
External links and references
- IMDB entry (http://us.imdb.com/Credits?0060908)
- http://www.foreignfilms.com/film.asp?film_id=6146