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The Down-in-the-Hole Gang(1974)
Status: Released
Date: 1974-02-06
64%
32 Votes
Time: 1h 30m
Overview:
Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves without the influences of the Outside World.
Languages: French.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies: 
Les Films de la Seine
Albina Productions S.a.r.l.
Raymond Leblanc
Movie: The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
Top 10 Billed Cast
Michel Serrault
Jean-Paul Rondin
Philippe Noiret
Gaspard de Montfermeil
Michel Galabru
Commissaire Lalatte
Chantal Goya
Marie-Hélène Rondin
Prudence Harrington
Miss Pamela Pendleton-Pumkin
Charles Denner
Ministre des travaux public
Jean Carmet
Paul Bourru
Gérard Depardieu
le facteur
Roger Carel
Alberto Sopranelli
Annie Cordy
Ginette Lalatte
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Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves without the influences of the Outside World.
Release Date
1974-02-06
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