Five longtime partners in a Paris gambling dive saw a retirement opportunity come up-and it involved pooling their cash resources for a massive narcotics buy. It sounded sweet until one of them got greedy-and his plan to pocket it all started deadly dominoes of suspicions, betrayals, and double-crosses. Jacques Deray's crackling crime tale stars Jean Rochefort, Claude Dauphin, Michel Auclair, Charles Vanel, José Giovanni, Michèle Mercier.