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The Powder Puff Gang (1972)

The Powder Puff Gang poster
Original title
Trop jolies pour être honnêtes
Directed by
Richard Balducci
Genre
comedy film
Country
France, Italy, Spain
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
3.5 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Four female roommates on the French Riviera find out that a group of thieves has stashed stolen goods in a building across from them. They decide to take the loot for themselves.

lightheartedplayfulfunfast-pacedmischievousbreezywhimsicalcaper-like

What happens

Trop jolies pour être honnêtes (French pronunciation: [tʁo jɔli puʁ ɛtʁ ɔnɛt], Too Pretty to Be Honest), or 4 Souris pour un hold-up (IPA: [katʁ suʁi puʁ œ̃n‿oldœp], Four Mice for a Holdup, subtitled by the English VHS as "Four Chicks for a Holdup") is a 1972 French film directed by Richard Balducci. In 1985 International Home Video Corp. of Wilmington, Los Angeles, California released an English subtitled version of the film, under the series La Vidéo Française. In the film four female roommates who live in the French Riviera, Bernadette (Bernadette Lafont), Christine (Jane Birkin), Frédérique (Elisabeth Wiener), and Martine (Emma Cohen), discover that a group of thieves who committed a robbery are keeping their stolen goods in the building across from them. The women decide to steal the goods from the men. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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