Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles

Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles is a 1973 French comedy-crime picture helmed by director Georges Lautner. The screenplay brings to the screen A. D. G.'s novel La nuit des grands chiens malades, which had appeared in print just a year earlier, in 1972. With a running time of roughly 92 minutes, the production is headed by Michel Galabru and Robert Dalban and draws on a broad ensemble of familiar faces from French cinema of the period. Filmed in French, it fits within the strand of Lautner's 1970s output that mixed humor with crime-story elements, a blend for which the director was well known at the time. The film stands as a representative example of French popular genre filmmaking of its era.