The Wise Guys (1965) on Netflix
Hector Valentin returns from Canada to the Vosges to run the family sawmill, which is outdated and short of workers. An ex-convict named Laurent persuades him to hire parolees from the prison.
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Plot summary
Hector Valentin comes home to the Vosges after twenty years in Canada to run the family sawmill his father left behind. The mill is remote and old-fashioned, it struggles against larger operations, and the local men will not take jobs there. At an auction he meets Laurent and Mick, two ex-convicts in search of work, and Laurent talks him into taking on parolees from the local prison. The parolees earn little and are not free to go, and with them the sawmill goes back into production. That draws the hostility of Therraz, whose timber business lies further down the valley and who will not tolerate a cheaper competitor, and fights break out between the woodcutters of the two camps.
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- Nick Stephaninias Casimir Therraz, contractor
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