Napoleon Road is a 1953 French

Cinema of France

The Cinema of France comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad.France is the birthplace of cinema and was responsible for many of its early significant contributions. Several important cinematic movements, including the Nouvelle...

 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Jean Delannoy

Jean Delannoy

Jean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family is from Haute-Normandie in the north of France...

 and starring Pierre Fresnay

Pierre Fresnay

Pierre Fresnay was a French stage and film actor.Born Pierre Jules Louis Laudenbach in Paris, France in 1897, he was encouraged by his uncle, the actor Claude Garry, to pursue a career in theater and film...

, Henri Vilbert and Claude Laydu

Claude Laydu

Claude Laydu was Belgian-born French actor.Laydu was born in Brussels, and had been a theater actor when he was cast as the title priest in Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest in 1950. For roughly the next decade, Laydu worked in film steadily until 1963's Mafia alla sbarra...

. A chancer organises a series of package tours along a route said to have been taken by Napoleon in 1815 when in fact the Emperor never set foot there. The local inhabitants back up his story as they hope to cash in on the tourist boom.

Cast

• Pierre Fresnay
  Pierre Fresnay
  Pierre Fresnay was a French stage and film actor.Born Pierre Jules Louis Laudenbach in Paris, France in 1897, he was encouraged by his uncle, the actor Claude Garry, to pursue a career in theater and film...
  
   - Édouard Martel
• Henri Vilbert - Blaise
• Claude Laydu
  Claude Laydu
  Claude Laydu was Belgian-born French actor.Laydu was born in Brussels, and had been a theater actor when he was cast as the title priest in Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest in 1950. For roughly the next decade, Laydu worked in film steadily until 1963's Mafia alla sbarra...
  
   - Pierre Marchand
• René Génin
  René Génin
  René Génin was a French film actor. He appeared in 134 films between 1931 and 1965.-Selected filmography:* Nuits de feu * Port of Shadows * Girls in Distress...
  
   - Le curé
• Mireille Ozy - Stella
• Raphaël Patorni - Bonvent
• Fernand Sardou
  Fernand Sardou
  Fernand Sardou was a French singer and actor.Sardou was the father of Michel Sardou, and he married Jackie Rollin , an actress. His two grandsons are French novelist Romain Sardou and French actor Davy Sardou....
  
   - Le maire de Bourg-sur-Bléone
• Henri Arius - Le boucher