Les Vieux de la Vieille Reviews

Retired from the SNCF, Baptiste Talon returns to Vendée in his native village of Tioune to find two old friends there: Jean-Marie Péjat and Blaise Poulossière. He tells them that he has decided to go to the Gouyette hospice. Jean-Marie Péjat, cycle repairer and old bachelor, decides to accompany him following an incident during a ball at the Fête aux Escargots where he realized that he was no longer very young. Blaise Poulossière, a former pig breeder living in his family now led with an iron fist by his son, also decides to join them.

And here are the three friends on the road with their bags and their basket of "pinard" (wine), for a trip punctuated by many adventures. But, once at their destination, disappointed by the austere atmosphere that reigns in the hospice run by sisters, they have no other plan than to return to the village. Having succeeded in fleeing Gouyette, they return to the village but are sharply lectured by the mayor who nevertheless accepts their return on the condition of being wise. How long will these incorrigible ganaches always on the lookout for a good joke be wise?

A hilarious comedy with three movie monsters united; enough to spend a pleasant moment.
Gabin and Fresnay had already played together in "La grande illusion" (1937).