Philippe de Broca’s hit comedic action romp begins when Francoise Dorleac is kidnapped as part of a museum heist of a valuable statuette, and Jean-Paul Belmondo follows her kidnappers to Brazil to save her life and find the treasure. There he battles international criminals, assassination attempts, and even a hungry crocodile. Designed in part as a spoof of the Bond movies, De Broca’s tongue-in-cheek take on the genre features a series of spectacular action set-pieces.
