Your Money or Your Life | |
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Directed by | Jean-Pierre Mocky |
Written by | Jean-Pierre Mocky Fernand Marzelle Alain Moury Marcel Aymé |
Produced by | Claude Ganz Jean-Pierre Mocky |
Starring | Fernandel Heinz Rühmann Jean Poiret |
Cinematography | Jean Tournier |
Edited by | Janette Kronegger Gabriel Rongier |
Music by | Bernard Kesslair |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date | 27 April 1966 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
Countries | France Italy West Germany |
Language | French |
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