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, 1h20Directed by Robert Lamoureux
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Pierre Mondy, Jean Lefebvre, Henri Guybet, Robert Lamoureux, Pierre Tornade, Bernard Dhéran
La suite des aventures du trio de la septième compagnie lors de la Débâcle de juin 1940 : Tassin, Chaudard et Pithivier échappent aux Allemands et sont recueillis en caleçon par la mère Crouzy qui leur fournit des uniformes d'officiers français abandonnés par leurs détenteurs pendant la débâcle. Nos trois héros se font arrêter à nouveau et sont conduits dans un château où une grande partie de l'état-major français est détenue. Les trois bidasses, devenus officiers malgré eux, sont sur le point de faire évader tous ces officiers quand, malencontreusement, alors qu'ils referment la porte derrière eux à la sortie des souterrains, le sol de la forêt s'écroule avec des arbres et bloque la sortie, obligeant les officiers à rebrousser chemin dans les galeries communicant avec le château. Quant aux trois soldats, ils se retrouvent enfin libres. S'ensuit une petite série d'évasions à chaque fois sous l'œil médusé de leur supérieur le capitaine Dumont (Pierre Tornade) qui ne comprend pas comment font ces trois tocards pour s'évader.
Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974)
, 1h31Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Peter Sellers, Lila Kedrova, Curd Jürgens, Béatrice Romand, Jenny Hanley, Vernon Dobtcheff
Set in Nazi-occupied France, the story follows Major Robinson of the British Army. Installing himself at a Parisian brothel, he assists the French resistance and works with Madame Grenier and her girls who find themselves eliminating high ranking German officers (using ingenious rigged beds and killer flatulence pills) right under the nose of the Gestapo.
Rookies Go to War (1974)
, 1h25Directed by Claude Zidi
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Gérard Rinaldi, Jean-Guy Fechner, Jean Sarrus, Gérard Filippelli, Jacques Seiler, Marisa Merlini
Gérard, Jean, Phil et Jean-Guy sont à l'armée, mais le sergent Bellec qui s'occupe d'eux ne les lâche pas d'une semelle. Les quatre compères préférant passer leur temps à jouer aux cartes en prison, ils restent à faire des bêtises et à se faire taper sur les doigts, comme quand ils sont chargés un jour de réchauffer la piscine du colonel. Par erreur, ils envoient du mazout dans la piscine, inondent la cave du colonel de mazout et se retrouvent coincés avec le sergent et le colonel. Un jour, ils parviennent à s'évader et se réfugient dans une ferme que l'armée veut réquisitionner parce qu'elle se situe sur un de ses terrains. Ils aideront les occupants avant d'aller dire « oui » (ou plutôt « non ») devant Monsieur le maire.
Operation Lady Marlene (1974)
, 1h24Directed by Robert Lamoureux
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Michel Serrault, Bernard Ménez, Robert Lamoureux, Pierre Tornade, Sybil Danning, Paul Mercey
Paris, 1941, sous l'Occupation. Clovis est une tête brûlée qui n'hésite pas à afficher son patriotisme, et à frapper en pleine rue les collaborateurs. Voulant se réfugier chez son ancien commandant, il croise la route de Paulo, escroc du marché noir qui vole les appartements pendant les alertes, quand leurs occupants se trouvent dans les abris. Le commandant est un résistant aux ordres d'un général farfelu qui entreprend de s'enfuir en Angleterre par montgolfière. Ce dernier va confier à ses hommes la mission de voler les plans du débarquement prévu par les Allemands en Angleterre, débarquement connu sous le nom d'Opération Lady Marlène. Mais Clovis s'occupant de cette mission, les choses ne se passent pas comme prévu.
, 1h35Directed by Robert Lamoureux
Origin France
Genres War, Comedy, Action
Themes Military humor in film, Transport films, Aviation films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Pierre Mondy, Jean Lefebvre, Aldo Maccione, Robert Lamoureux, Pierre Tornade, Marcelle Ranson-Hervé
During the Battle of France, while the German forces are rapidly spreading across the country, the 7th Transmission Company suffers an air raid near the Machecoul wood, but survive and hide in the wood. Captain Dumont, the company commander, sends three of his men—Louis Chaudard, Pithiviers and Tassin—to scout the area. After burying the radio cable beneath a sandy road, the little squad crosses the field, climbs a nearby hill, and takes position within a wall-covered area, which happens to be a cemetery. One of the men who was cutting down trees for camouflage hits the wrong tree, pulling up the radio cable from the sandy road and revealing it to the passing German infantry. The Germans cut the cable, surround the woods, and order a puzzled 7th Company to surrender. During that time, Chaudard and his friends, who spotted the Germans, try without success (due to the cut cable) to contact and join their unit. They can only witness their comrades' capture and decide to run away.
The Last Detail (1973)
, 1h43Directed by Hal Ashby
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Road movies, Buddy films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young, Clifton James, Carol Kane, Michael Moriarty
U.S. Navy petty officers Billy "Badass" Buddusky (Jack Nicholson) and Richard "Mule" Mulhall (Otis Young), are awaiting orders in Norfolk, Virginia when they are assigned a shore patrol detail escorting young sailor, Seaman Larry Meadows (Randy Quaid), to Portsmouth Naval Prison near Kittery, Maine. Meadows has drawn a stiff eight-year sentence for the petty crime of trying to steal $40 from a collection box of his Commanding Officer's wife's favorite charity. Despite their initial resentment of the detail, the oddly likeable Meadows begins to grow on the two Navy "lifers" as they escort him on a train ride through the wintry north-eastern states; particularly as they know what the Marine guards are like at Portsmouth and the grim reality facing their young prisoner. As the pair begin to feel sorry for Meadows and the youthful experiences he will lose being incarcerated, they decide to show him a good time before delivering him to the authorities.
Il sergente Rompiglioni (1973)
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Corinne Cléry, Mario Carotenuto, Nino Terzo, Enzo Andronico, Gino Pagnani
Rookies Run Amok (1971)
, 1h20Directed by Claude Zidi
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes French war films, Military humor in film
Actors Gérard Rinaldi, Jean-Guy Fechner, Jean Sarrus, Gérard Filippelli, Luis Rego, Jacques Seiler
Gérard, Phil, Jean-Guy, Jean et Luis, cinq amis inséparables, rêvent de créer un groupe pop du nom de The Tourist's. Après avoir loué à Crème leurs instruments de musique, ils participent à un concours régional, dont ils remportent le trophée.
Dad's Army (1971)
, 1h35Directed by Norman Cohen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Arthur Lowe, Clive Dunn, John Le Mesurier, John Laurie, James Beck, Arnold Ridley
1940 - Operation Dynamo has just taken place. From the newly conquered French coastline, a Wehrmacht colonel looks out over the English Channel with powerful binoculars. Surveying the white cliffs of Dover, he spies Godfrey emerging from a lavatory. Godfrey joins the rest of his platoon, who are defiantly waving the Union Flag. The colonel fumes contemptuously, "How can the stupid British ever hope to win?!"
, 1h53Directed by Hy Averback
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Brian Keith, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Ivan Dixon, Suzanne Pleshette, Tom Ewell
Col. Flanders commands a U.S. Army base in the South. To improve relations with the locals, he decides to throw a community dance. He gives the assignment to Warrant Officer Nace, sergeants Gambroni and Jones and a captain, Myerson.
The Breaking of Bumbo (1970)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Richard Warwick, Joanna Lumley, Natasha Pyne, Jeremy Child, John Bird, Donald Pickering
Newly commissioned Guards Ensign Bumbo learns the facts of life from his new girl friend in Swinging London as well as from his platoon and commanding officer.
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
, 2h24Directed by John Landis, Andrew Marton, Brian G. Hutton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Military humor in film, Political films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland, Gavin MacLeod
During a thunderstorm in early September 1944, units of the 35th Infantry Division are nearing the town of Nancy, France. One of the division's mechanized reconnaissance platoons receives orders to hold their position while under counterattack from the Germans; the out-numbered platoon are also on the receiving end of mortar fire from their own side.
M*A*S*H (1970)
, 1h56Directed by Robert Altman, Fred Williamson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Medical-themed films, Politique, Sports films, American football films, Musical films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, René Auberjonois
Set in 1951 in South Korea, the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is assigned two replacements: Captains "Hawkeye" Pierce and "Duke" Forrest, who arrive in a stolen Jeep. They are insubordinate, womanizing, mischievous rule-breakers but they soon prove to be excellent combat surgeons. They immediately clash with their new tent mate Frank Burns, who is both a religious man and an inferior, stubborn, inept and incompetent surgeon who, when he causes mistakes, selfishly accuses anyone that is aside him. Hawkeye and Duke pressure Lt. Colonel Henry Blake, the unit CO, to have Burns removed from "their" tent. They also ask him to apply for a specialist thoracic surgeon to be assigned to the 4077th. Their wish is granted when Captain "Trapper" John McIntyre arrives at the 4077th.
Operation Snafu (1970)
, 1h41Directed by Nanni Loy
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Action
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Nino Manfredi, Jason Robards, Peter Falk, Martin Landau, Anthony Dawson, Scott Hylands
Sicily, 1943, before the Allied assault in July. A pair of American commandos parachute inside the island for a secret mission. They are asked to check on the German weapons and positions before the assault. Along the way, they meet a wounded Italian prisoner of war. He agrees to help them complete their mission, provided there are no bumps in the road and no Germans thrown in.
Which Way to the Front? (1970)
, 1h32Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Jerry Lewis, Jan Murray, Joe Besser, Kathleen Freeman, Kaye Ballard, John Wood
Brendan Byers III (Jerry Lewis) is a rich playboy who enlists to fight in the war against the Axis powers, but is classified 4-F. He really wants to fight, so he enlists other 4-Fs and some loyal volunteers from his own service staff and forms his own army. He finances their training and equipment. Once completed, they travel to the front in Italy, with Byers impersonating a Nazi general named Eric Kesselring.