The Sheep Has Five Legs

1954 film

The Five-Legged Sheep Le Mouton à cinq pattes

Directed by	Henri Verneuil
Written by	Jean Marsan Jacques Perret Raoul Ploquin Henri Troyat Henri Verneuil
Produced by	Raoul Ploquin
Starring	Fernandel Françoise Arnoul Andrex
Cinematography	Armand Thirard
Edited by	Christian Gaudin
Music by	Georges Van Parys
Distributed by	Cocinor
Release date	24 September 1954 (France)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	France / USA^[1]
Language	French

The Five-Legged Sheep (French: Le Mouton à cinq pattes) is a 1954 French comedy film directed by Henri Verneuil. It won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival^[2] and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story.

Plot

An old farmer who has hated his five quintuplets for over twenty years is visited by villagers who believe they should be reunited, and a search for them begins.

Cast

Fernandel as Édouard Saint-Forget / Les quintuplés : Alain, Bernard, Charles, Désiré, Etienne
Françoise Arnoul as Marianne Durand-Perrin
Andrex as Un marin
Édouard Delmont as Le docteur Bollène
Georges Chamarat as M. Durand-Perrin, le père
Paulette Dubost as Solange
Louis de Funès as Pilate
René Génin as Le maire
Denise Grey as Mme Durand-Perrin, la mère
Tony Jacquot as L'instituteur
Ky Duyen as Un chinois
Darío Moreno as Un matelot américain
Noël Roquevert as Antoine Brissard
Lolita López as Azitad
Michel Ardan as Un marin
Edmond Ardisson as Le brigadier
Manuel Gary as Le docteur
René Havard as Le liftier
Yette Lucas as Mariette
Albert Michel as Le patron du bistrot
Gil Delamare as Le chauffard
Leopoldo Francés as Le métis
Nina Myral as La bonne
Yannick Malloire as Une petite fille
Raphaël Patorni as Rodrigue
Max Desrau as Le nouveau patron des pompes funèbres
Jocelyne Bressy
Micheline Gary as L'hôtesse de l'instutut de beauté

References

^ Erickson, Hal. "Le Mouton à Cinq Pattes". Allmovie. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
^ "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno. Archived from the original on July 19, 2009. Retrieved 2012-08-12.

External links

The Sheep Has Five Legs at IMDb
The Sheep Has Five Legs at AllMovie

Golden Leopard winning films

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And Then There Were None (1946)
Man About Town (1947)
Germany, Year Zero (1948)
The Farm of Seven Sins (1949)
When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
Hunted (1952)
Julius Caesar (1953)
The Composer Glinka (1953)
The Glass Wall (1953)
Prince Bayaya (1954)
Gate of Hell (1954)
Wild Fruit (1954)
Rotation (1954)
The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954)
Carmen Jones (1955)
The Emperor's Nightingale (1955)
Il Grido (1957)
Ten North Frederick (1958)
Killer's Kiss (1959)
Il bell'Antonio (1960)
Fires on the Plain (1961)
The Winner (1962)
Transport from Paradise (1963)
Black Peter (1964)
Four in the Morning (1965)
Courage for Every Day (1966)
Entranced Earth (1967)
The Visionaries (1968)
Charles, Dead or Alive (1969)
Those Who Wear Glasses (1969)
Three Sad Tigers (1969)
No Path Through Fire (1969)
Lilika (1970)
Mujo (1970)
Soleil O (1970)
End of the Road (1970)
On the Point of Death (1971)
They Have Changed Their Face (1971)
The Friends (1971)
Private Road (1971)
Znaki na drodze (1971)
Bleak Moments (1972)
The Illumination (1973)
Tűzoltó utca 25. (1974)
The Son of Amir Is Dead (1975)

1976–2000

The Big Night (1976)
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977)
The Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978)
The Herd (1979)
To Love the Damned (1980)
Chakra (1981)
The Princess (1983)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Alpine Fire (1985)
Jezioro Bodeńskie (1986)
O Bobo (1987)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Schmetterlinge (1988)
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989)
Accidental Waltz (1990)
Johnny Suede (1991)
Autumn Moon (1992)
The Place on a Grey Tricorne (1993)
Khomreh (1994)
Raï (1995)
Nénette et Boni (1996)
The Mirror (1997)
Mr. Zhao (1998)
Skin of Man, Heart of Beast (1999)
Father (2000)

2001–present

Off to the Revolution by a 2CV (2001)
The Longing (2002)
Khamosh Pani (2003)
Private (2004)
Nine Lives (2005)
Das Fräulein (2006)
The Rebirth (2007)
Parque via (2008)
She, a Chinese (2009)
Winter Vacation (2010)
Back to Stay (2011)
The Girl from Nowhere (2012)
Story of My Death (2013)
From What Is Before (2014)
Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)
Godless (2016)
Mrs. Fang (2017)
A Land Imagined (2018)
Vitalina Varela (2019)
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (2021)
Regra 34 (2022)
Critical Zone (2023)

v t e Films directed by Henri Verneuil
Village Feud (1951) Full House (1952) Forbidden Fruit (1952) The Baker of Valorgue (1953) Carnival (1953) The Most Wanted Man (1953) The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954) The Lovers of Lisbon (1955) People of No Importance (1956) Paris, Palace Hotel (1956) A Kiss for a Killer (1957) Maxime (1958) The Big Chief (1959) The Cow and I (1959) It Happened All Night (1960) Love and the Frenchwoman (1960) The President (1961) The Lions Are Loose (1961) A Monkey in Winter (1962) Any Number Can Win (1963) Greed in the Sun (1964) Weekend at Dunkirk (1964) The 25th Hour (1967) Guns for San Sebastian (1968) The Sicilian Clan (1969) The Burglars (1971) Night Flight from Moscow (1973) Fear Over the City (1975) Body of My Enemy (1976) I as in Icarus (1979) A Thousand Billion Dollars (1982) Les Morfalous (1984) Mother (1991) 588 rue paradis (1992)

Films directed by Henri Verneuil