Gilles Grangier

"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Holland Forint, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 Forint notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. (imdb)

Maigret (Jean Gabin) is the detective who investigates a murder conspiracy. Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. Maigret deals with the FBI and a series of shady underworld figures to save the life of the imperiled witness. The main character is a popular French detective taken from a novel by Georges Simenon. (allmovie.com)

After a spending the night with his girlfriend, trucker Jean encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death. (imdb)

Jean Gabin stars as Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police. Vallois takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal. Taking it upon himself to wean Lucky away from narcotics, Vallois also wins her love -- and, incidentally, smashes the dope ring responsible for her addiction. (allmovie.com)

Emile (Jean Gabin) and his family travel to the South of France to meet the parents of the man who is to marry his daughter in this family comedy drama. Adelphe (Fernandel) tries to ease the visitors from Paris into the more laid-back life of the South. The two future fathers-in-law slowly becomes friends before a lover's quarrel between their children threatens to jeopardize the upcoming marriage of Antoine and Marie. The two fathers eventually resolve their differences as do their offspring.

The engineer Albert Raynal has devoted his life to aeronautical research. He has just developed a ramjet. The launch succeeds but, alas, the rocket explodes in flight...

After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil ! (imdb)

Three screenwriters pooled their talents for the French racetrack drama Duke of the Derby. Jean Gabin plays a handicapper who's been living high on the hog (or horse) for years. While playing the ponies at Britain's Epson Downs, Gabin finally outsmarts himself. The rest of the story concerns his feverish efforts to recoup his former glory. (AllMovie)

Three old chums who are number ones in the business of practical jokes decide to leave their village from Vendée in France in order to go and live in a old people's nursing home. Pested off and unable to stand their jokes any more, the villagers are more than happy to see them leaving off. But the three old men, soon enough, feeling bored of the nursing home, make up their mind to come back and settle down in the village. (imdb)

Mr Jo, nicknamed "the man with the Buick", is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is in fact a trafficker with a bad reputation who would like to forget about his past, now limiting himself to smuggling rubies under the cover of a charitable organization which offers underprivileged children holidays in Switzerland. However, Mr. Jo is in love with a pretty widow and, in order to marry her, he is willing to get involved in a hold-up again. (imdb)

A garage owner (Jean Gabin) maintains his business as a front for his gang of criminals.

Pascal scrapes a modest living selling newspapers in the streets of Paris. Although a little rough around the edges, he has a good heart, so that when he sees a man jump into the Seine, he does not hesitate to come to his aid. (filmaffinity.com)

Bum Archimede wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get their proves not to be that easy. (imdb)

It is with a heavy heart that Monsieur Charles has to close his Parisian brothel in 1946, following new legislation outlawing such establishments. As a parting gift, he offers the brothel's red lantern to one of his star employees, Lucette.

In Düsseldorf, Martin Schmidt finds work on La Vierge du Rhin, a barge bound for France, keeping from his employer that he is in truth Jacques Ledru, a Frenchman who is thought to have been killed in action during World War II. Back in 1940, believing her husband to be dead, Ledru's wife Geneviève wasted no time marrying his associate Maurice Labbé and taking over his river transportation business.

Two lovers pretend they have a child, so that the man cannot marry his fiancee.