 ("La Grande Vadrouille") was even more successful, attracting the largest audiences ever in France (17.27 million admissions).This box-office record stood for decades, only surpassed in 1997 by "Titanic" from James Cameron.Oury shot the 1969 comedy "Le Cerveau" ("The Brain") in English, starring David Niven in the lead role as a criminal mastermind.