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Release year: 1963

Storyline

A dying mob boss hands over his business to an old friend, Fernand. The boss' assistants want to get rid of the latter. But are the Volfoni brothers and Théo real threats? Ensuing fights and shootouts are more comical than deadly.

Top credits

Directors

Georges Lautner

Writers

Cast

Lino Ventura — Fernand Naudin
Bernard Blier — Raoul Volfoni
Francis Blanche — Maître Folace
Claude Rich — Antoine Delafoy

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Did you know

• Paul Meurisse: The guy with the monocle saluting Lino Ventura at the end of the movie is Paul Meurisse, a reference to the movie The Black Monocle (1961), also by Georges Lautner.

• The stuntman against whom Lino Ventura fights is Henry Cogan, the man with whom he fought several years before in a fight during which Cogan broke Ventura's leg. During the fight for the movie, Ventura actually hit Cogan for good in the face saying: "This is for my leg."

• The lawyer tells a girl in the kitchen "Don't touch the loot", the title of a previous movie based on Simonin's characters: Touchez pas au grisbi (1954).