Man in the Trunk

Man in the Trunk

1973 · 100 min · FR · PG · 6.5 (50 votes)
Dir. Georges Lautner · Starring Mireille Darc, Michel Constantin, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Lefebvre, Michel Galabru, Robert Dalban
ComedyAdventure

A beautiful and thoroughly modern young French women, Francoise, gets involved with an Israeli agent working in Libya. The agent is exposed and in order to save his life, he has to be smuggled out of the country in a trunk ("valise"). Francoise and the agent get through a lot of turbulent adventures, in the process of which the thoroughly liberated young woman also seduces a Libyan agent and an Egyptian officer, who also fall wildly in love with here.

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A breezy, globe-trotting romp with a playful spirit. It’s a colorful, mod-infused caper filled with charmingly chaotic chases and romantic entanglements across exotic locales.

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