Hilarious movie based on the friendship/antagonism of Totó and Fernandel's characters. In a small village which is located right in middle of the border of France and Italy (therefore half its inhabitants is French and the other half is Italian), the law-abiding French custom officer Ferdinand (Fernandel) keeps trying to arrest the Italian smuggler Giuseppe over and over. Otherwise than that they have an almost friendship relation. Ferdinand was born in a house that is located on the borderline, but he always believed that it was on the French side. Giuseppe finds out that it was on the Italian side and, as an Italian can't be a French custom officer, he tells it to everybody. But Giuseppe's plan backfires miserably when his wife is forced to live with Ferdinand (she was Ferdinand's wife but they divorced, as the divorce didn't existed in Italy in 1958, they are still married by the Italian law). And Ferdinand legal ordeal is only in the beginning. After all, he was a perfect citizen in France, but never did anything in Italy, and this soon send him into a lot of problems. Now it's up to Giuseppe finds a way to undo everything that happened due to his bigmouth strategy before the maddened Ferdinand hurt someone or himself. Funny, irreverent and very critic. Unfortunately, Totó and Fernandel never repeated this partnership.
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