Gilles Grangier – MRQE

L’homme à la Buick

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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. And “the man with the Buick”, who seemed so honorable, will surprise the inhabitants of Honfleur when Inspector Menard reveals his secret activities.

Archimède, le clochard

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.

Le Désordre et la nuit

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, 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

Échec au porteur

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After resolving to start a new life with his girlfriend Jacqueline, Bastien Sassey decides to give up working as a courier for drugs traffickers. So that he and Jacqueline can make a fresh start he agrees to take on one more job for a large sum of cash, but he betrays his employer.

Le Rouge est mis

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminal activities only when “the red light is on” at night. This status quo is upset when one of the gang members becomes convinced that Louis’ younger brother is a police informer.

Gas-oil

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man’s widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.