R.I.P. Georges Lautner, director of Monsieur Gangster

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French writer-director Georges Lautner has died at the age 87. Lautner’s comedies and crime dramas made him one of the most successful French filmmakers for three decades, though he was perhaps less well-known outside his native country than some other directors whose work crossed over into the English-language art house circuit. His best-known movie, the gangster spoof Les Tontons Flingueeurs (1963), played overseas as Monsieur Gangster.