History Trivia / LesTontonsFlingueurs

** Francis Blanche (Maître Folace) and Creator/BernardBlier (Raoul Volfoni) played in ''Les Barbouzes'' while Jean Lefebvre (Paul Volfoni) starred in ''Ne nous fâchons pas''.

** Francis Blanche (Maître Folace) and Bernard Blier (Raoul Volfoni) played in ''Les Barbouzes'' while Jean Lefebvre (Paul Volfoni) starred in ''Ne nous fâchons pas''.

* FollowTheLeader: This movie started a trend of gangster comedies in French cinema in the sixties and early seventies, with Michel Audiard writing and even directing some of them.

** Georges Lautner, Michel Audiard and Lino Ventura teamed up for two other movies, ''Film/LesBarbouzes'' and ''Film/NeNousFachonsPas''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Georges Lautner wanted actress Mireille Darc to appear in the film, but she preferred going on holidays. She made up for it by appearing in both ''Les Barbouzes'' and ''Ne nous fâchons pas''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Georges Lautner wanted actress Mireille Darc to appear in the film, but she preferred going on holidays. She made it up by appearing in both ''Les Barbouzes'' and ''Ne nous fâchons pas''.

** Georges Lautner, Michel Audiard and Lino Ventura teamed up for two other movies, ''Film/LesBarbouzes'' (''The Great Spy Chase'') and ''Ne nous fâchons pas''.

** Robert Dalban (Jean the butler) appeared in a ''lot'' of French gangster comedies of the time, including ''Les Tontons Flingueurs'', ''Les Barbouzes'' and ''Ne nous fâchons pas'' as well as the ''Monocle'' series (''Le Monocle Noir'', ''L'Œil du Monocle'' and ''Le Monocle Rit Jaune'') as another cult character, RetiredBadass Monsieur Poussin (literally Mister Baby-bird).

** As for Sabine Sinjen, she was German and her part had to be dubbed by a French voice actress.

** Georges Lautner, Michel Audiard and Creator/LinoVentura teamed up for two other movies, ''Film/LesBarbouzes'' (''The Great Spy Chase'') and ''Ne nous fâchons pas''.
** Francis Blanche (Maître Folace) and Bernard Blier (Raoul Volfoni) played in ''Les Barbouzes'' while Jean Lefebvre (Paul Volfoni) starred in ''Ne nous fâchons pas''. Both starred Lino Ventura as protagonist.

** Georges Lautner, Michel Audiard and Lino Ventura teamed up for two other movies, ''Film/LesBarbouzes'' (''The Great Spy Chase'') and ''Ne nous fâchons pas''.
** Francis Blanche (Maître Folace) and Bernard Blier (Raoul Volfoni) played in ''Les Barbouzes'' while Jean Lefebvre (Paul Volfoni) starred in ''Ne nous fâchons pas''.

** Lino Ventura was born in Italy, lived mostly in France, spoke French perfectly and made his career there, but never took French citizenship. He still played mostly French characters.

** Georges Lautner, Michel Audiard and Lino Ventura teamed up for two other movies, ''Les Barbouzes'' (''The Great Spy Chase'') and ''Ne nous fâchons pas''.

** Georges Lautner, Michel Audiard and Lino Ventura teamed up for two other movies, ''Les Barbouzes'' and ''Ne nous fâchons pas''.

** Robert Dalban (Jean the butler) appeared in a ''lot'' of French gangster comedies of the time, including ''Les Tontons Flingueurs'', ''Les Barbouzes'' and ''Ne nous fâchons pas'' as well as the ''Monocle'' series (''Le Monocle Noir'', ''L'Œil du Monocle'' and ''Le Monocle Rit Jaune'') as another cult character, RetiredBadass Monsieur Poussin (literally Mister Chick).

** Robert Dalban (Jean the butler) appeared in a ''lot'' of French gangster comedies of the time, including ''Les Tontons Flingueurs'', ''Les Barbouzes'' and ''Ne nous fâchons pas'' as well as the ''Monocle'' series (''Le Monocle Noir'', ''L'Œil du Monocle'' and ''Le Monocle Rit Jaune'') as another cult character, Monsieur Poussin (literally Mister Hatchling).

** Robert Dalban (Jean the butler) appeared in a ''lot'' of French gangster comedies of the time, including ''Les Tontons Flingueurs'', ''Les Barbouzes'' and ''Ne nous fâchons pas''.

* DawsonCasting: Sabine Sinjen, who plays high school senior Patricia (17-18), was 21 at the time.

** Lino Ventura was born in Italy, lived mostly in France, made his career there and spoke French perfectly, but never took French citizenship. He still mostly played French characters.

** Lino Ventura was born in Italy, lived mostly in France and spoke French perfectly but never took French citizenship. He still mostly played French characters.

** Lino Ventura lived mostly in France and spoke French perfectly but never took French citizenship; he remained Italian and played a huge number of French characters, including Fernand Naudin.

** As for Sabine Sinjen, she was German and her part was had to be dubbed by a French voice actress.

** As for Sabine Sinjen, she was German and her part was dubbed by a French voice actress.

** Georges Lautner, Michel Audiard and Lino Ventura teamed up for two other movies, ''Les Barbouzes'' and ''Ne nous fâchons pas'', albeit less successful (and less memorable) than this one.
** Robert Dalban (Jean the butler) was in a lot of French gangster comedies of the time, including ''Les Tontons Flingueurs'', ''Les Barbouzes'' and ''Ne nous fâchons pas''.

* FollowTheLeader: This movie started a trend of gangster comedies in French cinema in the sixties and early seventies, with Michel Audiard writing and even directing some of them. However, none of them were as successful nor memorable as ''Les Tontons Flingueurs''.

** Robert Dalban (Jean the butler) was probably the king of HeyItsThatGuy in French gangster comedies of the time, including ''Les Tontons Flingueurs'', ''Les Barbouzes'' and ''Ne nous fâchons pas''.