Directed by:
Jacques TatiScreenplay:
René WheelerCinematography:
Jacques MercantonComposer:
Jean YatoveCast:
Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli, Jacques Cottin, Jacques Beauvais, Robert Balpo, Roger RafalVOD (2)
Plots(1)
François is a postal delivery man in a small French country town. He is often the center of attention in the town, which is not always a good thing. He tries to be helpful but most in town mock him behind his back. At the Bastille Day festivities in the town, he and the rest of the townsfolk view a movie on the efficiencies of the U.S. Postal Service, the service which has at their disposal airplanes and helicopters to deliver the mail. François is dismayed at how backward he sees the French Postal Service, he only having a bicycle as transport for his postal route. It is even a major process for his company to get him a replacement bicycle tire. François is obsessed with speeding up the delivery of at least the service on his route - doing it as well or even better than the Americans - with only his bicycle, his ingenuity and advice from the townsfolk to do so. His only goal is speed, this goal at any cost. As he implements his ideas, the townsfolk remark on how François is doing it "the American way". (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Jacques Tati
France
Best movies:
My Uncle (1958)
Play Time (1967)
The Big Day (1949)
Guy Decomble
France
Best movies:
The 400 Blows (1959)
Inspector Maigret (1958)
The Cousins (1959)
Paul Frankeur
France
Best movies:
Marie-October (1959)
Children of Paradise (1945)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Santa Relli
France
Best movies:
The Big Day (1949)
Jacques Cottin
Best movies:
Bed & Board (1970)
Max and the Junkmen (1971)
The Big Day (1949)
Jacques Beauvais
Best movies:
Le Rouge et le noir (1954)
The Big Day (1949)
The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)
Robert Balpo
Best movies:
The Gates of Paris (1957)
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)
Panic (1946)
Roger Rafal
France
Best movies:
The Big Day (1949)
Without Leaving an Address (1951)
Unusual Tales (1949)