The Wise Guys

Hector Valentin (Bourvil) comes home to France from Canada with one aim, to get the small sawmill he has inherited running again. The place is run-down, the workers do as little as they can, and a bigger competitor is happy to use dirty tactics against him. Robert Enrico, adapting a José Giovanni novel, gives Bourvil and Lino Ventura's Laurent Dannecker the plain physical business of a working mill.