The Sheep Has Five Legs

The Five-Legged Sheep Le Mouton à cinq pattes
Directed by	Henri Verneuil
Written by	Jean Marsan Jacques Perret Raoul Ploquin Henri Troyat Henri Verneuil
Produced by	Raoul Ploquin
Starring	Fernandel Françoise Arnoul Andrex
Cinematography	Armand Thirard
Edited by	Christian Gaudin
Music by	Georges Van Parys
Distributed by	Cocinor
Release date	24 September 1954 (France)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	France / USA[1]
Language	French

The Five-Legged Sheep (French: Le Mouton à cinq pattes) is a 1954 French comedy film directed by Henri Verneuil. It won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival^[2] and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story. It's considered a classic of French post-war cinema.

Plot[]

An old farmer whose five sons are quintuplets has hated them for over 20 years. After a visit from the villagers, they become convinced that the brothers should be reunited, and a search for the five brothers starts.

Cast[]

• Fernandel as Édouard Saint-Forget / Les quintuplés : Alain, Bernard, Charles, Désiré, Etienne
• Françoise Arnoul as Marianne Durand-Perrin
• Andrex as Un marin
• Édouard Delmont as Le docteur Bollène
• Georges Chamarat as M. Durand-Perrin, le père
• Paulette Dubost as Solange
• Louis de Funès as Pilate
• René Génin as Le maire
• Denise Grey as Mme Durand-Perrin, la mère
• as L'instituteur
• as Un chinois
• Darío Moreno as Un matelot américain
• Noël Roquevert as Antoine Brissard
• as Azitad
• as Un marin
• Edmond Ardisson as Le brigadier
• as Le docteur
• René Havard as Le liftier
• as Mariette
• Albert Michel as Le patron du bistrot
• as Le chauffard
• as Le métis
• Nina Myral as La bonne
• as Une petite fille
• Raphaël Patorni as Rodrigue
• as Le nouveau patron des pompes funèbres
• Micheline Gary as L'hôtesse de l'instutut de beauté

References[]

External links[]

• The Sheep Has Five Legs at IMDb
• The Sheep Has Five Legs at AllMovie

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