Tintin and the Golden Fleece The film ends with Tintin, Snowy, Haddock, Calculus, Nestor, Clodion, Romulus and the postman from the beginning of the film, being treated to a visit by the local band to help them celebrate and Romulus in Calculus's new invention, a flying birdcage. The actors playing Thomson and Thompson are listed as "incognito" in the end credits. Snowy the dog is credited as Milou, which is his original French name. Marcel Bozzuffi, who plays the thug Angorapoulos, is best known as the hitman pursued in the famous car chase and shot by Gene Hackman in "The French Connection". "Karabine" is a
Tintin (character) drawings of Totor merely illustrated the story; the text that appeared below the drawings is what propelled the action. Totor had been very much in Hergé's mind; its new comics character would be, Hergé himself later said, "the little brother of Totor ... keeping the spirit of a Boy Scout." Assouline would describe Totor as "a sort of trial run" for Tintin, while Harry Thompson noted that in several years he would "metamorphose" into Tintin. Hergé had seen the new style of American comics and was ready to try it. Tintin's new comic would be a strip cartoon with dialogue