Quote - I hope it wasn't King Kong vs. Godzilla.  Because that movie sucked.

 

Didn't it just. As a geeky youth I trekked miles across town to an arthouse cinema that was meant to be screening Juliet of the Spirits, and didn't find out that they'd replaced it with King Kong vs Godzilla until I was inside. My girlfriend of the time never forgave me.

Remembering the appalling (dubbed) dialogue in that film reminded me of the worst subtitle I ever saw, and that's now given me a problem like Acadia's. There was this film about group of French ex-pats, stranded in a foreign land by WW2, and vying for the only available paying job - that of driving a truckload of unstable explosives over a mountain. At one point the hero leaps from the cab and shouts something incredibly rude in French, which was rendered in the English subtitle as "stop messing about", a phase that in 1960's England had a resonance so at odds with the subject matter as to be hilarious.

Anyways, I'm sure the film is some sort of famed classic, but what's it called? I've spent hours searchim IMDB.