Rookies Run Amok

Rookies Run Amok

1971 · 85 min · ★ 5.6 · Comedy

Les Bidasses en Folie, a french movie from 1971, is a very short, easy to watch, slapstick hippie comedy.

Directed by Claude Zidi · Written by Claude Zidi

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