King of Hearts

The French/Italian/British film takes place during WWI. Adolfo Celi plays a British colonel who orders mild-mannered Scotsman Alan Bates to undertake a life-or-death mission in a tiny French village. While evacuating the town, the Germans have left behind a bomb that will explode at midnight; Bates must defuse that bomb., A Scotsman becomes an unlikely World War I hero when he arrives in a French town that’s been abandoned by everyone but the inmates of an asylum., Philippe de Broca directed this cult classic with Alan Bates as an unlikely World War I hero. Genevieve Bujold, Adolfo Celi, Pierre Brasseur. Duke: Jean-Claude Brialy. Duchess: Francoise Christophe. Mme. Eglantine: Micheline Presle.