The Elusive Corporal
1962 · 105 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 1,083 VOTES · DIR. Jean Renoir
Overview
The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW camp.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,016 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:50 THE ELUSIVE CORPORAL
00:06:01 Are you alone? Where are our Free Corps buddies?
00:08:21 But those strawberries were delicious, Papa.
00:13:43 They'll never make us laugh as much as they're pissing us off.
00:16:59 You see
00:22:35 But beware...
00:28:23 Get down from there!
00:31:18 They'll eat till they burst while I get my teeth pulled!
00:35:09 When you work at a respected cafe like Bertrand's
00:38:05 If it doesn't, you'll only lose some soup, while the Corporal...
00:41:15 Your turn.
00:47:28 Beer, please.
00:52:31 - War, you understand? - Yes.
00:55:27 I'm no longer like them.
00:59:50 You on list. You see dentist.
01:05:27 I love a man who won't be enslaved.
01:10:08 Cheating on a prisoner, what a shame.
01:16:28 Get your hands dirty.
01:19:14 a gratuitous act can become practical...
01:25:10 but-but-but you need authority.
01:31:04 There probably is a woman in Paris who'll have her whole life to look at you.
01:37:42 Have a little. Helps with all of life's sorrows.
01:42:02 Her husband was killed in Russia.
02:04:02 - He's at the door, cutting the barbed wire.
Cast & Characters
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Le caporal
Jean-Pierre Cassel
The Corporal
Claude Brasseur
'Papa'
Claude Brasseur
'Pop'
O.E. Hasse
Le voyageur ivre dans le train
Claude Rich
Ballochet
Jacques Jouanneau
Penche-à-gauche
Sacha Briquet
L'évadé grimé en vielle femme
Raymond Jourdan
Hippolyte Dupieu
Guy Bedos
Le prisonnier qui bégaye
Philippe Castelli
Le prisonnier électricien
Gérard Darrieu
L'homme qui louche
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,016
Dialogue density9.7 lines / min
First line00:00:50
Final line02:04:02
Production Record
DirectorJean Renoir
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes1,083