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    Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974)

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    This World War II comedy from Shepperton Studios stars Peter Sellers in multiple roles.

    His international co-stars include Lila Kedrova as Madame Grenier, the resourceful ‘Madame’ of a brothel; Curt Jurgens as von Grotjahn, a German general not entirely in step with his Fuhrer; and Beatrice Romand as Madame Grenier’s innocent niece from the country who soon learns about life from her worldly-wise aunt.

    As the Germans sweep victoriously into Paris, Mme Grenier and her girls bid farewell to their French and English clients as they philosophically prepare to service the elite of the occupying German forces.

    Under the patronage of one of Madame’s early admirers, von Grotjahn, it looks as if the establishment will flourish. However, fate in the guise of a British Intelligence officer decrees otherwise.

    He involves Madame in daring plots against the German High Command and she becomes an honorary colonel (code name: Venus) in General de Gaulle’s Free French Forces, managing to keep one step ahead of a highly suspicious Gestapo chief.

    The climax sees Hitler’s design to blow up Paris foiled. while Madame and her brave ‘girls’ are decorated by a grateful French President.

    The glamorous international beauties playing inmates of the brothel include England’s Jenny Hanley, French brunette Francoise Pascal, Polish redhead Rula Lenska (making her film debut), blue-eyed blonde Daphne Lawson, Belgian-Russian Carolle Rousseau, Gabriella Licudi (of Greek-German-Spanish descent) and Creole actress/model Hylette Adolphe from the French island of Mauritius.

    Released in some markets as Undercovers Hero.

    Général Latour
    Peter Sellers
    Major Robinson
    Peter Sellers
    Herr Schroeder
    Peter Sellers
    Adolf Hitler
    Peter Sellers
    M. Le Président des Forces Spéciales
    Peter Sellers
    Prince Kyoto
    Peter Sellers
    Madame Grenier
    Lila Kedrova
    General von Grotjahn
    Curt Jurgens
    Marie-Claude
    Béatrice Romand
    Michèlle
    Jenny Hanley
    Simone
    Gabriella Licudi
    Madeleine
    Françoise Pascal
    Alan Cassidy
    Rex Stallings
    Louise
    Rula Lenska
    Claudine
    Daphne Lawson
    Mlle. Tom-Tom
    Hylette Adolphe
    Helene
    Carolle Rousseau
    Padre
    Vernon Dobtcheff
    Kapitan Kneff
    Douglas Sheldon
    General Erhardt
    Thorley Walters

    Director
    Roy Boulting

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