What is Crooks in Clover about?

Name: Crooks in Clover
Genre: Action/Adventure,Comedy

CROOKS IN CLOVER (aka LES TONTONS FLINGUEURS aka MONSIEUR GANGSTER), 1963, Gaumont, 105 min. Director Georges Lautner helmed this deliciously funny, but dark gangster spoof with Lino Ventura as a former mobster lured back into the business by a dying friend’s last request. Obligated to tie up some “loose ends” as well as look after the dead man’s soon-to-be-married daughter, Ventura abruptly finds himself running afoul of gangster hardcase, Bernard Blier. But Ventura is not to be trifled with, and responds in equal measure. Soon, a string of killings erupt and bodies pile up as the two men go at it. One of the classics. In French, with English subtitles.

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What is Crooks in Clover about?: CROOKS IN CLOVER (aka LES TONTONS FLINGUEURS aka MONSIEUR GANGSTER), 1963, Gaumont, 105 min. Director Georges Lautner helmed this deliciously funny, but dark gangster spoof with Lino Ventura as a former mobster lured back into the business by a dying friend’s last request. Obligated to tie up some “loose ends” as well as look after the dead man’s soon-to-be-married daughter, Ventura abruptly finds himself running afoul of gangster hardcase, Bernard Blier. But Ventura is not to be trifled with, and responds in equal measure. Soon, a string of killings erupt and bodies pile up as the two men go at it. One of the classics. In French, with English subtitles.