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Noël's devious assistant Lachaume (having just made Noël's niece pregnant) took over the young woman. Feigning helpfulness to François, Maublanc says he will arrange everything with his brokers, but in fact tells them to leak the news that the Schoudler empire has run out of capital. As this will depress the share price, his plan is to buy a controlling interest on the cheap. When the market price starts falling, François is in despair and Maublanc tells him that the only decent thing to do is to put a bullet through his head. Unfortunately, the impressionable young man does so. Noël then goes down to the stock exchange where, speaking to brokers, he reassures them that his businesses are sound. The share price soars and Maublanc's plot is foiled.
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father is furious and decides to teach his son a lesson. He tells François that he can have the run-down sugar business, to manage as he pleases. Painfully lacking the necessary expertise, the young man launches into enthusiastic modernisation and expansion. It is rapidly brought home to him that he needs capital, which he will have to raise.
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When his father tells him he is on his own, he turns to their cousin Maublanc, a malicious playboy who for several reasons hates the Schoudlers. One immediate grievance is that he asked their newspaper to promote his latest mistress, an aspiring actress called Sylvaine, and was not only refused but
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Noël Schoudler is the autocratic head of diversified family enterprises which include a bank, a newspaper and a sugar refinery. His only son François considers the whole set-up archaic and, while his father is on a business trip to the US, starts jazzing up the staid newspaper. On his return, the
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The film recorded 4,042,041 admissions in France. Gabin received the 1959
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Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause !
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Denys de La Patellière
Michel Audiard
Maurice Druon
Jacqueline Thiédot
Maurice Thiriet
French
Denys de La Patellière
Jean Gabin
Pierre Brasseur
Bernard Blier
Jean Desailly
Françoise Christophe
Annie Ducaux
Maurice Druon
Prix Goncourt
David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor
Jean Gabin
Jean Desailly
Pierre Brasseur
Bernard Blier
Françoise Christophe
Annie Ducaux
Louis Seigner
Jean Wall
Julien Bertheau
Daniel Lecourtois
Aimé Clariond
Françoise Delbart
"Les Grandes familles"

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