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The Vultures is a french film of genre Drama directed by Henri Verneuil released in USA on 11 november 1984 with Jean-Paul Belmondo
The Vultures (1984)
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Add to a movie listLes Morfalous (literally The Greedy-Guts, in French argot) is a 1984 French adventure film, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Henri Verneuil, featuring the French Foreign Legion during the Second World War.
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In French Tunisia, during the Second World War, a convoy of the French Foreign Legion is charged to recover gold bars of six billion francs from a bank in El Ksour in order to bring them into a safe place for the French government.Actors
Jean-Paul Belmondo
(Sergent Pierre Augagneur)
Michel Constantin
(Adjudant Edouard Mahuzard)
Marie Laforêt
(Hélène Laroche-Fréon)
Michel Creton
(Légionnaire Boissier)
Jacques Villeret
(Brigadier Béral)
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