''La Tour, prends garde !'' (''La Tour, watch out!'') is a 1958 French

adventure An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting, or other extreme ...

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...

film directed by

Georges Lampin Georges Lampin (14 October 1901 – 8 May 1979) was a French actor and film director. He directed twelve films between 1946 and 1963. Selected filmography Director * ''The Idiot'' (1946) * ''Eternal Conflict'' (1948) * ''Return to Life'' ...

, written by Claude Accursi, starring Jean Marais. The film was known under the title "King on Horseback" (USA), "Des Königs bester Mann" (West Germany), "Killer Spy" (international English title).

Cast

* Jean Marais : Henri La Tour *

Eleonora Rossi Drago Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmira Omiccioli, (23 September 1925 – 2 December 2007) was an Italian film actress. She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy, and had the leading role in '' Le amiche''. She appeared in ''Un maledetto imbr ...

: Countess Malvina of Amalfi * Nadja Tiller : Mirabelle * Cathia Caro : Antoinette de Saint-Sever "Toinon" *

Jean Parédès Jean Parédès (1914–1998) was a French film actor.Hayward p.145 Selected filmography * ''Three from St Cyr'' (1939) - Bréval * ''The Fatted Calf'' (1939) - Albert - le garçon de café * ''La Charrette fantôme'' (1939) - Un salutiste (uncre ...

: Nicolas Taupin *

Renaud Mary Renaud Mary (31 July 1918 – 5 May 1977) was a French stage and film actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern ...

: Pérouge * Robert Dalban : Barberin * Christian Duvaleix : Passelacet * Yves Massard : Marquis François de Marmande *

Marcel Pérès Marcel Pérès (born 15 July 1956, Oran, Algeria) is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant. Pérès w ...

: Chamonet *

Jean-Pierre Léaud Jean-Pierre Léaud, ComM (; born 28 May 1944) is a French actor, known for playing Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut's series of films about that character, beginning with ''The 400 Blows'' (1959). He also worked several times with Jean-Luc ...

: Pierrot * Raoul Delfosse : Bravaccio * Paul-Emile Deiber : Duc Philippe de Saint-Sever * Jean Lara :

Louis XV Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached ...

* Sonia Hlebsova/Klebs : L'impératrice Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche * Roger Saget : Maréchal de Noailles *

Liliane Bert Liliane Bert (1922-2015) was a French film and television actress.Hayward p.146 Selected filmography * '' The Blue Veil'' (1942) * '' We Are Not Married'' (1946) * '' Colonel Durand'' (1948) * '' Sergil and the Dictator'' (1948) * ''The Heroic M ...

: Duchesse de Châteauroux * Jacques Marin : Aristide Cornilion (non crédité) *

Dominique Davray Dominique Davray (born Marie-Louise Gournay; 27 January 1919 in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,4 ...

: Une invitée de Taupin (non créditée) * Albert Michel : L'invité de Taupin (non crédité) *

Monette Dinay Monette Dinay (1906–1986) was a French film actress.Crisp p.45 Partial filmography * ''Black and White'' (1931) - Joséphine * ''L'agence O-Kay'' (1932) - Simone * ''Ce cochon de Morin'' (1932) * ''Un beau jour de noces'' (1932) - Marinette D ...

: M^me Taupin (non créditée) * Albert Daumergue : Un policier du roi

References

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La Tour, prends garde! (1958)
at the ''Films de France'' 1958 films 1950s adventure drama films French adventure drama films 1950s French-language films French black-and-white films Films directed by Georges Lampin Films set in the 1740s Films set in Germany Films set in France 1958 drama films French swashbuckler films 1950s French films {{1950s-France-film-stub