Slightly Ahead

(1956)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 8 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1956

Runtime: 88 мин

Country: France

Director: Norbert Carbonnaux

Cast: Луи де Фюнес, Фернан Граве, Жан Ришар, Жак Дюби, Darry Cowl, Micheline Dax, Жак Дюфило, Max Révol, Robert Murzeau, Guy Bedos

Plot

A brilliant swindler, Olivier Parker, hires a small-time pipe salesman, Amédée, to swindle a naive provincial, Ferdinand Galiveau, a chicken merchant. Renamed Teddy Morton and now a jockey, Amédée must ride a mare on which Ferdinand, advised by Parker, must bet. Absolutely convinced of his mystification, Parker bets on an oddball who, of course, loses, while at the last minute Galiveau, having bet on an outsider, wins a fortune. All Parker has to do is find another sucker.