Fort du Fou
1963 French-Italian film by Léo Joannon
Fort du fou is a 1963 Italian/French international co-production war film set during the First Indochina War co-written and directed by Leo Joannon. American International Pictures released the film straight to American television in 1965 under the title Outpost in Indochina.
Cast
Jacques Harden as Capitaine Noyelles
Alain Saury as Lieutenant Veyrac
Jean Rochefort as Sergent Hérange
Foun-Sen as Xuan
Jean-Loup Reynold as Private Bernard Jules
Mai-Trung as The Priest
Van Quynh as Chief of the Viet Minh
Stan Dylik as Chief Adjutant Prétot
Laurent Dumm as Sergent Durrieu
Le Bâ Dat as Sergent Minh
Paul Luu Dinh as Lu Banh
Nguyen Thi Tuyet as Marie Phuong
Michel Charrel as Private Vincent
Robert Maurice as Private Masson
François Brincourt as.
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