Le Camion blanc (1943)
Directed by Léo Joannon

Film Synopsis

Because he was born on the 21st of August at 12 o'clock, has no children and has killed no one, François Ledru, a garage mechanic, is hired by Nicolas Shabbas to drive a big white lorry.  Shabbas promises to give François the lorry if he will undertake a 12 thousand kilometre journey across France in two weeks.  François agrees and Shabbas reveals that he belongs to a gypsy tribe of northern France.  The tribe's king has recently died at Saint-Ouen and, according to the law of his ancestors, his body must be taken along the roads he traversed in life in a white caravan driven by a man born on the 21st of August.  Unfortunately, Shabbas' enemy, Edgar Courbassie, is prepared to do almost anything to thwart this mission, so that he can become the gypsies' next king...