Georges Lautner, the director of a host of hugely popular comedies and crime movies during the 1960s, 70s and 80s, died at 87 in Paris on Friday November 22.
To his fans, his name evokes elegant French gangsters in black and white wielding silencer guns and trading chiselled dialogue to comic background music.
Lautner’s 'Les Tontons Flingueurs' ('Crooks in Clover'), starring Bernard Blier and Lino Ventura, was an instant box-office hit in 1963.
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