Noël Roquevert

People in Luck, is a 1963 French comedy film directed by Philippe de Broca and Jean Girault, written by Jacques Vilfrid and Jean Girault and starring France Anglade and Louis de Funès. The film is known under the titles People in Luck or The Lucky, Die Glückspilze or Fünf Glückspilze and I fortunati.

In the capital of a South American country, two young police cadets compete to solve the murder of a notorious gangster from Chicago.

Legendary French star Gérard Philipe swashbuckled his way into film history as the peasant soldier Fanfan in Christian-Jaque’s devil-may-care romantic action-comedy. In eighteenth-century France, Fanfan joins King Louis XV’s army to avoid a forced marriage to a local lass and gets himself into close scrapes and tight squeezes with Gina Lollobrigida’s impostor fortune-teller, Adeline, on his way to fighting in the Seven Years’ War. Filled to the brim with dazzling stunts and randy innuendo, FANFAN LA TULIPE, which won the best director prize at Cannes and was a smash hit upon its initial release, remains one of France’s all-time most beloved films.

In 18th century France, Louis-Dominique Bourguignon (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a highwayman with a sense of morality. In the course of his adventures, he rescues the beguiling Venus (Claudia Cardinale) from her captors. Together, they form a band of thieves, preying on the rich and sharing their bounty with the poor. As Cartouche, the mysterious robber becomes a popular hero and a thorn in the side of the police, until his former criminal boss Malichot (Marcel Dalio) joins the side of the law.