Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Germany, Italy
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.
- prostitute
- paris
- france
- based on novel or book
- bomb
- hitman
- slang
- alcohol
- gangster
- debt
- orphan
The bill
Lino Ventura
Fernand Naudin
Bernard Blier
Raoul Volfoni
Francis Blanche
Maître Folace
Claude Rich
Antoine Delafoy
- Pierre Bertin — Adolphe Amédée Delafoy
- Jean Lefebvre — Paul Volfoni
- Sabine Sinjen — Patricia, la fille de Louis "le Mexicain"
- Robert Dalban — Jean, le majordome
- Horst Frank — Théo
- Venantino Venantini — Pascal
- Mac Ronay — Bastien
- Jacques Dumesnil — Louis « le Mexicain »
- Paul Mercey — Henri
- Dominique Davray — Madame Mado
- Henri Cogan — Freddy
- Directed
- Georges Lautner
- Written
- Michel Audiard
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 568 ratings
- Studio
- Gaumont, Corona Filmproduktion, Ultra Film - Sicila Cinematografica
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
