Les grands moyens

19761976
1h 24m

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6.5/10

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Comedy Crime

In this film, the local mob wipes out an entire family for revenge, with the exception of a sweet little old aunt and her two daughters. Unfortunately for the killers, the sweet little old a... Read allIn this film, the local mob wipes out an entire family for revenge, with the exception of a sweet little old aunt and her two daughters. Unfortunately for the killers, the sweet little old aunt is a vengeful Corsican who proceeds to hunt down and slay them for murdering her loved... Read allIn this film, the local mob wipes out an entire family for revenge, with the exception of a sweet little old aunt and her two daughters. Unfortunately for the killers, the sweet little old aunt is a vengeful Corsican who proceeds to hunt down and slay them for murdering her loved ones.

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6.5/10

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Director
- Hubert Cornfield
Writers
- Richard Caron(adaptation)
- Hubert Cornfield(adaptation)
- Charles Exbrayat(novel 'Les menteuses')
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Final feature of Fernand Sardou.

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Vendetta
Written by Hubert Cornfield
Performed by François de Roubaix

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6/10

Day of the Fates .

Hubert Cornfied's precedent film "the night of the following day" took place in Brittany (or Normandy ?) ,France : a thriller featuring Marlon Brando ,Richard Boone and Rita Moreno ,with a very unsettling ending ,which was not trendy at the time.

Hubert Cornfield's infatuation with France continued with a French movie in 1976, "les Grands Moyens" from an Exbrayat's novel which sank without a trace.Here the cast was entirely French ,and probably the only one in which eighty-two -year old Hélène Dieudonné got top billing.

A vendetta story,told with a lot of humor : one of the victims is none other than the superintendent 's sister ;in Corsica ,traditions have to be respected :blood cries for vengeance.As a captain cannot break the law, his aunt Basilia , 82,and her two sisters ,both in their eighties ,will play the role of the three Greek Fates ,without him knowing it.And the grannies are rather gifted when it comes to bumping off the five killers ,helped by the nephew's wife ,who thinks that her husband is now a hero and walks out on her lover; everybody in town thinks that the captain is responsible for these mysterious murders and ,much to his displeasure, warmly congratulates and applaudes him .

A little unpretentious comedy , filmed on location , with a good French cast ,with a particularly smart denouement : the younger generation wiill carry on with the good work!

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