Monsieur Gangster (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 26, 2013
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: Olive Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Francis Blanche, Jean Lefebvre & Claude Rich | |
Directed by | Georges Lautner | |
Screenwriting by | Albert Simonin & Georges Lautner | |
Composition by | Michel Magne | |
Director of Photography: | Maurice Fellous |
Entertainment Reviews:
96%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 4,555
Many of the quips in the slangy, metaphorical dialogue seem to lose their bite in translation. But the kooky sound design, the supple direction, and the thugs' rubber-faced reactions generate plenty of chuckles on their own.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
This crime comedy finds ex-gangster Fernand (Lino Ventura) receiving a call from a dying friend, a mob boss nicknamed "The Mexican" (Jacques Dumesnil). The doomed mobster talks Fernand into taking care of some criminal business and looking after his soon-to-be-married daughter (Sabine Sinjen). When a longtime mobster heavy, Volfoni (Bernard Blier) takes exception to Fernand for being an outsider, they come after Fernand who is equal to the task. He defends himself in a series of comical killings from the onslaught of the mob. Writer Albert Simonin adapted this comedy from his book GRISBY OR NOT GRISBY, with sharp dialogue written by Michel Audiard. Both Simonin and Audiard would later work on director Georges Lautner's LES BARBOUZES/THE GREAT SPY CHASE which, along with LES TONTONS FLINGUEURS, would again feature actors Francis Blanche, Lino Ventura and Bernard Blier.