Adieu l'ami (1968)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Jean Herman

Writers:

Jean Herman (screenplay)
Sébastien Japrisot (dialogue)

Release Date:

8 August 1973 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways...

Plot Keywords:

Safe | Doctor | Mercenary | Bearer Bonds | Safecracker

Cast

Alain Delon	...	Dino Barran
Charles Bronson	...	Franz Propp
Olga Georges-Picot	...	Isabelle Moreau
Brigitte Fossey	...	Dominique 'Waterloo' Austerlitz
Bernard Fresson	...	Insp. Antoine Méloutis
Marianna Falk	...	Catherine
Ellen Bahl	...	Martha
Jean-Claude Ballard	...	A police inspector
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michel Barcet	...	Insp. Muratti
Antoine Baud
Stéphane Bouy	...	Man from Neuilly
Béatrice Costantini	...	Young patient (as Béatrice Constantini)
Guy Delorme	...	Man from Neuilly
André Dumas	...	Personnel director
Steve Eckhardt	...	Big man
Marie-Noëlle Gresset
Raoul Guylad	...	Insp. Gorik
Lisette Lebon	...	Gilberte
Sylvain Lévignac	...	A passerby at Saint Lazare
Jacques Marbeuf	...	Parachutist
Claude Salez	...	Parachutist
Sandrine Schmidt
Gilbert Servien	...	A police inspector
Catherine Sola	...	Nurse
Jean-Paul Tribout	...	A police inspector

Also Known As:

Due sporche carogne (Italy)
Farewell, Friend (USA)
Honor Among Thieves (USA) (reissue title)
Tecnica di una rapina (Italy)

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

France | Italy

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:18 | West Germany:16 (nf) | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | UK:15

Company:

Greenwich Film Productions

Trivia:

This movie made Bronson a European favorite.

Quotes:

Dino Barran: Give me your word.
Franz Propp: I ain't got one.
Dino Barran: Give it to me anyway.
Franz Propp: Very well friend.

Superb

This movie is definately one of my favorite movies in it's kind. The interaction between respectable and morally strong characters is an ode to chivalry and the honor code amongst thieves and policemen. It treats themes like duty, guilt, word, manipulation and trust like few films have done and, unfortunately, none that I can recall since the death of the 'policial' in the late seventies. The sequence is delicious, down to the essential, living nothing out and thus leading the spectator into a masterful plot right and wrong without accessory eye catching and spectacular scenes that are often needed in lesser specimens of the genre in order to keep the audience awake. No such scenes are present or needed. The argument is sand honest to the spectator; An important asset in a genre that too often achieve suspense through the deception of the audience. No, this is not miss Marble... A note of congratulations for the music is in order A film to watch and savor every minute, not just to see.