If there were a list of 'the coolest' films ever made, this would be toward the top. Phil Jackson, ex-coach of the Chicago Bulls, once showed this 1966 film to the Bulls to inspire them for a game (but I'm not sure how this was supposed to inspire them - I think Jackson just liked this movie and wanted to share it).
Basically it's an 'anti-war' film and much more. Before leaving a French town (toward the end of WW I) a German General maliciously plants a giant bomb in the town square which is supposed to destroy the town and the English soldiers coming in to occupy the town. A Frenchman learns of this and contacts the English. He informs them of the bomb, but cannot determine where the bomb is located.
Private Plumpick (played by Alan Bates) is chosen to go into the town and diffuse the bomb. In the town he finds that there are still people there - inmates from an insane asylum have left their facility and have, in fact, occupied the town. They have shed their asylum clothing and are now dressed as the various town leaders. Plumpick becomes the King of their community as he desperately tries to determine where the bomb has been placed.
Everybody who has seen this film has fallen in love with this film.
Please enjoy it! I think you have to click on 'closed caption' to turn on the English subtitles for this French film. Click on the cc box under the movie screen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGEqDF6ZMyY
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