Slightly Ahead (1956)

Name: Slightly Ahead
Director: Norbert Carbonnaux
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1956-10-10
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Louis de Funès, Fernand Gravey, Jean Richard, Jacques Duby, Darry Cowl

★ 6.2 (8) 1h 28m 1956

Comedy

A brilliant swindler, Olivier Parker, hires a small-time pipe salesman, Amédée, to swindle a naive provincial, Ferdinand Galiveau, a chicken merchant. Renamed Teddy Morton and now a jockey, Amédée must ride a mare on which Ferdinand, advised by Parker, must bet. Absolutely convinced of his mystification, Parker bets on an oddball who, of course, loses, while at the last minute Galiveau, having bet on an outsider, wins a fortune. All Parker has to do is find another sucker.