- Les Tontons flingueurs
"Les Tontons flingueurs" (English: "Crooks in Clover", also known as "Monsieur Gangster") is a 1963 French-Italian-German film, made in the
French language , directed byGeorges Lautner . It's an adaptation of the Albert Simonin's book "Grisbi or not grisbi".The film was not enormously popular on first release Fact|date=September 2008. But its reputation grew with the passing years and it is now a classic of French-speaking television, while the DVD version, released in 2002, sold 250,000 copies. Fact|date=September 2008
One of the most famous scenes is set in a kitchen where the gangsters try to make nonchalant conversation while drinking a vile and strong liquor. Screenwriter Michel Audiard considered it useless and it might never have existed, but the director included the scene in homage to the
film noir "Key Largo". Fact|date=September 2008Synopsis
Fernand Naudin is an ex-gangster, who now deals in agricultural machinery. His modest, quiet life is disrupted when his childhood friend, now a notorious gangster, summons him to his death bed.
Cast includes
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Lino Ventura : Fernand Naudin
*Bernard Blier : Raoul Volfoni
*Jean Lefebvre : Paul Volfoni
*Francis Blanche : Maître Folace
*Robert Dalban : Jean
*Venantino Venantini : Pascal
*Mac Ronay : Bastien
*Horst Frank : Théo
*Henri Cogan : Freddy
*Charles Régnier : Tomate
*Sabine Sinjen : Patricia
*Claude Rich : Antoine Delafoy
*Pierre Bertin: Adolphe Amédée Delafoy
*Jacques Dumesnil : Louis "the Mexican"
*Dominique Davray : Madame Mado
*Philippe Castelli : the tailor
*Paul Meurisse : a passer-by (Théobald Dromard "")External links
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