The Inheritor

The Inheritor

The Inheritor

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The Inheritor

1973

1h 52m

6.3(88 votes)

Thriller

Drama

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Overview

After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...

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32 members

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Jean-Paul Belmondo

Bart Cordell

Jean-Paul Belmondo

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Carla Gravina

Liza Rocquencourt

Carla Gravina

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Jean Rochefort

Le nonce (André Berthier)

Jean Rochefort

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Charles Denner

David Loweinstein

Charles Denner

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Jean Desailly

Jean-Pierre Carnavan

Jean Desailly

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Jean Martin

Mgr. Schneider

Jean Martin

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Maurice Garrel

Brayen

Maurice Garrel

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Pierre Grasset

Pierre Delmas

Pierre Grasset

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Maureen Kerwin

Lauren Korey

Maureen Kerwin

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François Chaumette

Maître Georges Theron-Maillard

François Chaumette

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Michel Beaune

Frédéric Lambert

Michel Beaune

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Marcel Cuvelier

Le Ministre

Marcel Cuvelier

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Fosco Giachetti

Luigi Balazzi

Fosco Giachetti

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Anna Orso

Giovanella Cordell

Anna Orso

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Paul Amiot

Hugo Cordell

Paul Amiot

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Pierre Dominique

Premeier tueur

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Fernand Guiot

Le policier

Fernand Guiot

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Michel Cassagne

André Dutois

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Serge Wagner

Campanella

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Matti Lassila

Hugo junior

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Gilles Exbrayat

Bart enfant

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René Alié

Les P.D.G.

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Jean Juillard

Les P.D.G.

Jean Juillard

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Jacques Marbeuf

Deuxième tueur

Jacques Marbeuf

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Roger Benamou

Réalisatuer télévision

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Zitzermann

Equipe T.V

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Chevalier

Equipe T.V.

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Claudine Beccarie

(uncredited)

Claudine Beccarie

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Étienne Draber

(uncredited)

Étienne Draber

Directing

Philippe Labro

Un journaliste (uncredited)

Philippe Labro

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Michel Such

(uncredited)

Michel Such

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Rossana Canghiari

Secretary (uncredited)

Rossana Canghiari

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