Les gros malins

Les gros malins is a 1969 comedy directed by Raymond Leboursier; the French Wikipedia entry describes it as a joint French-Italian production, though other records list France alone as the country of origin.

No detailed plot summary has survived in the sources available, so what stands out about this picture today is mainly its large, star-studded supporting cast drawn from well-known French comic performers of the period. Names appearing in the ensemble include Eddie Constantine, Francis Blanche, Jean Carmet, Henri Génès, Henri Tisot, Jacques Jouanneau and Léon Zitrone, alongside Michel Galabru and Robert Castel, both already documented on this site. Running close to one hundred minutes, the film exemplifies the kind of broad, multi-comedian vehicle that was common in French cinema at the close of the 1960s, even though no screenwriter credit is recorded in the available sources.