Les Truands
| Les Truands | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Carlo Rim |
| Written by | Carlo Rim |
| Produced by | Robert Sussfeld |
| Starring | Eddie Constantine Noël-Noël Jean Richard |
| Cinematography | Maurice Barry |
| Edited by | Monique Kirsanoff |
| Music by | Georges Van Parys |
Production company | Franco London Films [1] |
| Distributed by | Gaumont [2] |
Release date | 27 April 1956 |
Running time | 106 |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Les Truands is a French comedy film starring Eddie Constantine directed by Carlo Rim. For English-speaking audiences it was renamed as Lock Up Your Spoons respectively The Gangsters.[3]
Synopsis
This is the story of racketeer Amédée who recalls the story of his life when he is already more than 100 years old. He tells his family about his rise and his rivals. This is all to explain why he couldn't help but nick the watch of the mayor who came to congratulate him.
Cast
- Eddie Constantine : Jim Esposito, racketeer in Marseille
- Noël-Noël : Cahuzac, racketeer in Bordeaux
- Jean Richard : Alexandre Benoit, Amédée's son
- Yves Robert : Amédée Benoit (and his father)
- Sylvie : Clarisse Benoit
- Lucien Baroux : the priest
- Mireille Granelli : Clarisse at the age of 18 years
- Denise Provence : La Païva
- Line Noro : Chiffon
- Junie Astor : Mlle Puc, the tailoress
- Héléna Manson : Nana
- Robert Dalban : Pépito Benoit
- Gaston Modot : Justin Benoit
- Cora Vaucaire : a singer
- Claude Borelli : a wife of Jim
- Antonin Berval : Benoit's third-born son
- Martine Alexis : a wife of Jim
- Irène Tunc : a wife of Jim
- Ariane Lancell : a saloon girl
- Béatrice Arnac : Mme Léonce
- Guy Tréjean : Bobby, the lover of Cahuzac's daughter
- Albert Rémy : policeman
- Nadine Tallier : a wife of Jim
- Claude Godard : a wife of Jim
- Françoise Delbart : the twin's mother
- André Bervil : Ange
- Daniel Sorano : the barkeeper
- Robert Vattier : the Duke of Morny
- André Dalibert : a police officer
- Michel Nastorg : town mayor
- Léon Larive : photographer
- Pascal Alexandre : Jim as child
- Christian Denhez : Amédée as child
- Jean d'Yd : the grandfather
- Nelly Vignon : Madeleine Cahuzac
- Jacques Mancier : police inspector
- Henri Cogan : a cowboy
References
- ^ "Franco-London Films". Retrieved 16 July 2012.
- ^ "Les truands". Retrieved 16 July 2012.
- ^ "Aka: Lock Up Your Spoons; The Gangsters". Retrieved 16 July 2012.
External links
- Les Truands at IMDb
- Les Truands at AllMovie
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