The Elusive Corporal was released in the year 1962。The Elusive Corporal is also called as Caporal épinglé, Le, The Vanishing Corporal, Strane licenze del caporale Dupont, Korporal in der Schlinge, Karkaileva korpraali, Cabo de Guerra。

An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the French border.