Leontine (film)

Leontine (French: Faut pas prendre les enfants du bon Dieu pour des canards sauvages) is a 1968 French comedy crime film directed by Michel Audiard and starring Françoise Rosay, Bernard Blier and Marlène Jobert.

Rita is an ambitious young gangster's moll in Paris, kept by the elegant Fred who acquires a load of gold ingots in transit.

Rita goes to ask help from her aunt Léontine, living in retirement on the Riviera after being the mistress of major gangsters.

His first ploy, sending his handsome young nephew Tiburce to murder her, fails as Rita falls in love with him.

When a full-scale night assault on Leontine's house ends with the corpses of his men going into the central heating furnace, Charles is ready to compromise and agrees to make a generous settlement if the two young people get married.