The Uncles flingueurs

the Uncles flingueurs is a film free - italo - German, realized by Georges Lautner, left on the screens in 1963. It is the adaptation of the novel of Albert Simonin Grisbi gold Not Grisbi , third shutter of a trilogy devoted to the gangster max the Liar, who includes/understands also Touchez not with the grisbi and undermines It rebiffe , also adapted to the screen.

Synopsis

In film of Lautner, max the Liar becomes Fernand Naudin (Lino Ventura), a ex-gangster reconverted into the trade of agricultural machinery, in Montauban. Its small quiet life will rock when his/her friend of childhood, the Mexican, a notorious gangster, of return to Paris, calls it with his bedside…

This one, dying, entrusts to Fernand, before dying out, the management of its “business” as well as the education of its small Patricia (Sabine Sinjen), with the dissatisfaction with her troops and under the benevolent neutrality of Master Folace (Francis Blanche) its notary, who is not moved too much by the quarrel of succession to come.

Fernand Naudin must face the Volfoni brothers - Raoul (Bernard Blier) and Paul (Jean Lefebvre) - who have aimings on the businesses of the Mexican: a clandestine gambling den, a distilling quite as clandestine, a closed house, etc

In addition to the salt of the counterparts of Audiard, the charm of film lies in the easy ways used to mask with Patricia and her friend Antoine (Claude Rich), like with the father of this last, the true situation.

Data sheet

  • Realization: Georges Lautner

  • Scenario: Albert Simonin, Georges Lautner
  • Dialogs: Michel Audiard
  • According to the novel Grisbi gold not grisbi of Albert Simonin
  • Production companies: Corona Filmproduktion, Sicilia Cinematografica, New Company of the Establishments Gaumont and Ultra Producing Film
  • : Irenee Leriche and Robert Sussfeld
  • Executive producer: Alain Poiré
  • Original music: Michel Magne
  • Director of the photography: Maurice Fellous
  • Assembly: Michelle David
  • Creation of the decorations: Jean Mandaroux
  • Poster artist: Clement Hurel
  • Coming out date: November 27th 1963
  • Film free-italieno-German
  • Format: 35 mm (black and white)
  • Lasted: 105 minutes
  • Kind: police comedy

Distribution

Anecdotes

  • the Gaumont did not believe in the success of the film which was defended only by Alain Poiré and, to limit the financial risks, joined other production companies. This explains the presence in the casting of German actors (Sabine Sinjen and Horst Frank) and Italian (Venantino Venantini).
  • Michel Audiard found the scene of the useless kitchen and it failed well never not to exist. It is Georges Lautner which restored it in homage to Key Largo , this famous black film in which one sees gangsters accoudés with a bar to evoke with nostalgia the good time of prohibition.
  • Michel Audiard would have preferred like titrates “ the Terminus of the pretentious ”, expression which one finds in a counterpart of Raoul Volfoni: “It will intend to sing the angels, the gugusse of Montauban. I will return it straight to the head office, with the terminus of the pretentious one! ” But its partners considered it too pompeux. The title “ the Terminus of the pretentious ” will appear of manner of wink on a pediment of cinema in a later film of Lautner, Flic or hooligan .
  • Jean Gabin was a time had a presentiment of to hold the role of Fernand Naudin. It however established such requirements (it wished to impose its team of technicians) which it was not retained with the great relief of Michel Audiard with which he was temporarily annoyed at the time.
  • Georges Lautner used one musical topic, carried out by Michel Magne and interpreted in various musical styles (orchestral, rock'n'roll, waltz, etc) in addition to the famous piano-banjo to each flock-conk of Fernand. This topic is restricted with the four notes of the bumblebee of Notre-Dame and even the sonata presented in film as being of Corelli is the work of Michel Magne which always had fun some.
  • the film was not an enormous popular success as of its exit into the room since it moved only 450  000 spectators in six months in Paris and its periphery, which does not have anything exceptional. But its reputation did nothing but grow with the passing of years and it is since past fifteen times on television and was sold with 250  000 specimens at the time of its exit in DVD in 2002. It on the other hand was éreinté by criticism (the fashion was rather with the New wave), and in particular by Henry Chapier (“ You pavoisez high… but you aim low”).
  • the quality of realization of the DVD was very neat, inter alia by numerical elimination of the inevitable jumping of image of the projectors 35  Misters the same treatment was granted thereafter to another film, undermines It rebiffe . The operation of Colorisation of these two feature-length films was discussed, but remains always “reversible” by elimination of the color, which allows the majority of the television sets (with nevertheless a loss of clearness and let us tons in the gray in spite of an artificial increase in contrast).

See too

Random links:The TV Team | Lapeyrouse-Mornay | Mikraot Gedolot | Place de l'Orient | Kurr | Und_Isolde_de_Tristan