Film Synopsis
Because he was born on the 21st of August at 12 o'clock, has no children and has killed no one, François Ledru, a garage mechanic, is hired by Nicolas Shabbas to drive a big white lorry. Shabbas promises to give François the lorry if he will undertake a 12 thousand kilometre journey across France in two weeks. François agrees and Shabbas reveals that he belongs to a gypsy tribe of northern France. The tribe's king has recently died at Saint-Ouen and, according to the law of his ancestors, his body must be taken along the roads he traversed in life in a white caravan driven by a man born on the 21st of August. Unfortunately, Shabbas' enemy, Edgar Courbassie, is prepared to do almost anything to thwart this mission, so that he can become the gypsies' next king...© James Travers
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Film Credits
- Director: Léo Joannon
- Script: André-Paul Antoine, André Cayatte (dialogue), Léo Joannon
- Cinematographer: Nikolai Toporkoff
- Music: Louis Pasquier, Roger-Roger
- Cast: Jules Berry (Shabbas), Blanchette Brunoy (Germaine), François Périer (François Ledru), Fernand Charpin (Courbassié), Marguerite Moreno (La veuve du roi), Roger Karl (Acho), Mila Parély (Madame Dupont), Jean Parédès (Ernest), Charles Lemontier (Le père de Germaine), Edmond Beauchamp (Un gitan), Robert Berri (Un pompiste), Georges Bever (Le contröleur), Les Eléphants du Cirque Amar (The elephants), Marcelle Monthil (La mère de Germaine), Thérèse Ambert, Jean-Marie Boyer, Olivier Darrieux, André Nicolle, Albert Rancy, Maurice Schutz
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Support: Black and White
- Runtime: 112 min
- Aka: The White Truck
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