King of Hearts (1966 film)

King of Hearts original French title Le Roi de cur is a 1966 French comedydrama film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Alan Bates.

Charles Plumpick Bates is a kiltwearing Scottish soldier who is sent by his commanding officer to disarm a bomb placed in the town square by the retreating Germans.As the fighting comes closer to the town, its inhabitantsincluding those who run the insane asylumabandon it. The asylum gates are left open, and the inmates leave the asylum and take on the roles of the townspeople. Plumpick has no reason to think they are not who they appear to beother than the colorful and playful way in which theyre living their lives, so at odds with the fearful and warravaged times. The lunatics crown Plumpick King of Hearts with surreal pageantry as he frantically tries to find the bomb before it goes off. ........

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