The Cheerful Squadron
1954 French film
- 24 September 1954 (1954-09-24)
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Italy
The Cheerful Squadron (Italian: Allegro squadrone, French: Les gaietés de l'escadron) is a 1954 Italian-French historical war comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and starring Vittorio De Sica, Daniel Gélin, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini.[1][2] It is the third adaptation of a story by Georges Courteline about life in the French military in the late nineteenth century.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Gianni Polidori.
Cast
- Vittorio De Sica as the General
- Daniel Gélin as Frédéric d'Héricourt
- Paolo Stoppa as Maresciallo Flik
- Alberto Sordi as Vergisson
- Silvana Pampanini as Albertina
- Charles Vanel as Hurluret
- Luigi Pavese as Capitano medico
- Riccardo Fellini as Bonaparte
- Memmo Carotenuto as Sergente maggiore
- Peter Trent as Lt. Moussent
- Giacomo Furia as Caporale
- Jean Richard as Laperrine
- Oreste Lionello
See also
- The Gaieties of the Squadron (1913)
- Fun in the Barracks (1932)
References
External links
- The Cheerful Squadron at IMDb
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