Name: Les héritiers
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1960-03-09
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Rating: 3.9
Cast: Roger Pierre, Jean-Marc Thibault, Jacqueline Maillan

It is a comedy à la Française;Roger Pierre and Jean-Marc Thibault were a team of stand up comics before splitting and making solo careers :Roger Pierre was even cast in an Alain Resnais movie ,no less:"Mon Oncle d'Amerique" ;as for Jacqueline Maillan,she was a very talented actress, extremely funny,but on stage :in the movies she was never given a part worthy of herself.

She plays here Chantal ,the villain,who wants to get rid of the heirs (check the title).So Roger and Marc will have a bad time.

Best scene: they wind up in the dungeons of an old castle where they meet some kind of Abbé Faria (see the count of Monte Cristo)who tells them he subsists on bats,and he adds "it tastes like veal..."

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