La Grande Vadrouille

La Grande Vadrouille
French theatrical release poster
Directed by	Gérard Oury
Produced by	Robert Dorfmann
Written by	Marcel Jullian Gérard Oury Danièle Thompson Georges Tabet André Tabet
Starring	Bourvil Louis de Funès Claudio Brook Terry-Thomas
Music by	Georges Auric Hector Berlioz
Cinematography	André Domage Alain Douarinou Claude Renoir
Edited by	Albert Jurgenson
Release date	1 December 1966
Running time	132 minutes
Country	France United Kingdom
Language	French English German
Budget	$2.3 million
Box office	$129.5 million

La Grande Vadrouille (French pronunciation: ​[la ɡʁɑ̃d vaˈdʁuj]; literally "The Great Stroll"; originally released in the United States as Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!) is a 1966 French comedy film about two ordinary Frenchmen helping the crew of a Royal Air Force bomber shot down over Paris make their way through German-occupied France to escape arrest.

For over forty years, until the release of Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis in 2008, La Grande Vadrouille was the most successful French film in France, topping the box office with over 17,200,000 cinema admissions. It remains the third most successful film ever in France, of any nationality, behind the 1997 version of Titanic and Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis, both of which were seen by over 20,000,000 cinemagoers.

Summer 1941. Over German-occupied France, a Royal Air Force bomber becomes lost after a mission and is shot down over Paris by German flak. Three of the crew, Sir Reginald, Peter Cunningham and Alan MacIntosh, parachute out over the city, where they run into and are hidden by a house painter, Augustin Bouvet, a puppet show operator, Juliette, and the grumbling conductor of the Opéra National de Paris, Stanislas Lefort. Involuntarily, Lefort, Juliette and Bouvet get themselves tangled up in the manhunt against the aviators led by Wehrmacht Major Achbach as they help the airmen to escape to the free zone with the help of Resistance fighters and sympathisers.

The film was made by the same team who did the enormously successful The Sucker (1965).

The film was the most popular of 1966 at the French box office with admissions of 17,275,169. (This was almost twice as much as the second most popular, Dr Zhivago, which had 9,816,305.)