How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1965 · 100 mins · French

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Directed by

Georges Lautner, Gilles Grangier

Starring

Bernard Blier, Albert Rémy, Jacques Marin, Bernadette Lafont, Juliet Mills, Dominique Davray

Divided into three episodes, the narrative opens with a Bernard Blier character who removes a lantern from the entrance of a brothel. The second segment follows the theft of that lantern, together with jewelry, from a young baroness. In the final episode, Louis de Funès’ hero hangs a lantern at the doorway of his own house.