Les Grands Ducs

Three old actors attempt to make a comeback by working in a road-show production of Scoubidou. Also on the tour are the flighty leading actress Carla Milo, and a desperate producer, Shapiron, who knows the show is likely to be a disaster... Victor and Eddie are two ageing actors who seem destined to spend the rest of their careers dashing from theatre to theatre to play bit parts. When they learn that a touring theatre company is about to start rehearsals for a production of the farce "Scoubidou", they decide it is time for a comeback. They persuade the play's producer, Shapiron, to hire them, at a reduced rate, and then coerce their temperamental friend Georges Cox into joining them. Realising that the show is likely to be a disaster, Shapiron asks his leading lady, Carla Milo, to feign an illness so they can collect the show's insurance money. When she refuses, the increasingly irrational Shapiron resorts to ever desperate measures to sabotage the production... (Cinemax)