The Cheerful Squadron (Italian: Allegro squadrone, French: Les gaietés de l'escadron) is a 1954 Italian-French historical war comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and starring Vittorio De Sica, Daniel Gélin, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini.[1][2] It is the third adaptation of a story by Georges Courteline about life in the French military in the late nineteenth century.

The Cheerful Squadron
Directed by	Paolo Moffa
Written by	Georges Courteline (play) Suso Cecchi d'Amico Alessandro Continenza Michel Audiard Marcel Camus
Starring	Vittorio De Sica Daniel Gélin Alberto Sordi Silvana Pampanini
Cinematography	Václav Vích Enzo Barboni
Edited by	Eraldo Da Roma
Music by	Annibale Bizzelli
Production companies	Film Costellazione Produzione Les Films Fernand Rivers Zebra Films
Distributed by	CEI Incom
Release date	24 September 1954
Running time	90 minutes
Countries	France Italy
Language	Italian

The film's sets were designed by the art director Gianni Polidori.

Cast

• Vittorio De Sica as the General
• Daniel Gélin as Frédéric d'Héricourt
• Paolo Stoppa as Maresciallo Flik
• Alberto Sordi as Vergisson
• Silvana Pampanini as Albertina
• Charles Vanel as Hurluret
• Luigi Pavese as Capitano medico
• Riccardo Fellini as Bonaparte
• Memmo Carotenuto as Sergente maggiore
• Peter Trent as Lt. Moussent
• Giacomo Furia as Caporale
• Jean Richard as Laperrine
• Oreste Lionello

See also

• The Gaieties of the Squadron (1913)
• Fun in the Barracks (1932)

References

External links

• The Cheerful Squadron at IMDb

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