''Dog Day'' (french: Canicule, ,
dog days
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) is a 1984 film by French director
Yves Boisset
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starring
Lee Marvin
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. A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession. The supporting cast includes
Tina Louise
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and
Juliet Mills
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.
Cast
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Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin (born Lamont Waltman Marvin Jr.; February 19, 1924August 29, 1987) was an American film and television actor. Known for his bass voice and premature white hair, he is best remembered for playing hardboiled "tough guy" characters. Alth ...
as Jimmy Cobb
*
Miou-Miou
Sylvette Herry (born 22 February 1950), known professionally as Miou-Miou (), is a French actress. A ten-time César Award nominee, she won the César Award for Best Actress for the 1979 film ''Memoirs of a French Whore''. Her other films inclu ...
as Jessica
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Jean Carmet
Jean Carmet (25 April 1920 – 20 April 1994) was a French actor.
Life and career
Jean Carmet began working on stage and then in film in the early 1940s becoming a very popular comedic actor in his native country. He is best known internatio ...
as Socrate
*
Victor Lanoux
Victor Lanoux (18 June 1936 – 4 May 2017) was a French actor best known to English speaking audiences for his role as Ludovic in ''Cousin, Cousine''.
Biography
Victor Lanoux, born Victor Robert Nataf was the son of a Tunisian Jew from Sfax an ...
as Horace
*
David Bennent
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Biography
He was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. His parents are German actor Heinz Bennent and French former dancer Diane Mansart. His sister Anne Bennent is also an actress.
He has lived ...
as Chim
*
Bernadette Lafont
Bernadette Lafont (28 October 1938 – 25 July 2013) was a French actress who appeared in more than 120 feature films. She has been considered "the face of French New Wave". In 1999 she told ''The New York Times'' her work was "the motor of my e ...
as Ségolène
* as Lily
*
Tina Louise
Tina Louise ( Blacker; born February 11, 1934) is an American actress widely known for her role as movie star Ginger Grant in the CBS television situation comedy ''Gilligan's Island''. With the death of Dawn Wells in 2020, Louise became the las ...
as Noémie Blue
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Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Jean-Claude Dreyfus (born 18 February 1946, in Paris) is a French actor, comedian, and author.
He began his career in film acting in 1973 in the film ''Comment réussir quand on est con et pleurnichard''. Dreyfus is notable for his portrayal ...
as Le Barrec
*Muni as Gusta
*
Juliet Mills
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as Maggy
*Julien Bukowski as Rojinski
*
Jean-Roger Milo
Jean-Roger Milo, born in Paris, is a French actor.
Biography
After learning his craft at the theatre with Sacha Pitoëff, Jean-Roger Milo was noticed by the cinema. He appeared in the 1982 movie Ace of Aces alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo. In 1993, ...
as Julio
*Joseph Momo as Doudou Cadillac
*
Henri Guybet
Henri Guybet (born 21 December 1936) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1964.
Guybet started his career in dinner theater in the Café de la Gare, alongside Coluche and Miou-Miou in late 1960s. Gérard Oury g ...
as Marceau
References
External links
''Dog Day''in the
Internet Movie Database
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1984 films
Films directed by Yves Boisset
Films with screenplays by Michel Audiard
Films scored by Francis Lai
1980s French films