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8 August 1973 (USA)
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After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways...
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Honour among thieves
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Cast
(Credited 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 Eckardt | ... | Big man (as Steve Eckhardt) | |
| Marie-Noëlle Gresset | |||
| Raoul Guylad | ... | Insp. Gorik | |
| Lisette Lebon | ... | Gilberte | |
| Sylvain Levignac | ... | 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 | |
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Also Known As:
Due sporche carogne (Italy)
Farewell, Friend (USA)
Honor Among Thieves (USA) (reissue title)
Tecnica di una rapina (Italy)
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Farewell, Friend (USA)
Honor Among Thieves (USA) (reissue title)
Tecnica di una rapina (Italy)
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115 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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Certification:
Argentina:18 |
West Germany:16 (nf) |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:16 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:PG |
UK:15
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Alain Delon, like many French, had admired Machine-Gun Kelly (1958), one of the first Bronson's starring vehicles, and he invited Bronson to co-star with him in "Adieu, L'Ami".
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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.
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Franz Propp: I ain't got one.
Dino Barran: Give it to me anyway.
Franz Propp: Very well friend.
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Farewell Friend aka Adieu L'Ami/Honour Among Thieves isn't perfect but it is a neat and entertaining thriller that sees mismatched demobbed French Algerian War veterans Alain Delon and Charles Bronson trapped in the same basement vault, one to return stolen bonds, the other to clean out the two million in wages sitting there over the Christmas weekend. Naturally things aren't quite that simple even after they open the vault, leading to some neat twists and turns. On the debit side, there's a very bizarre striptease scene in a car park, Bronson has a very irritating Fonzie-like catchphrase he uses at the most inopportune moments, Brigitte Fossey, sporting perhaps the most hideously misconceived hairstyle of the 60s (it makes her look like a bald woman whose wig is blown back off the top of her head by a high wind), is something of a liability her "I'll cook spaghetti! I'll learn to make love well! I'll read Shakespeare!" speech is hysterical in all the wrong ways and it's a shame about the horrible last line/shot, but otherwise this is a surprisingly entertaining and unpretentious number that's worth checking out if you can find a decent print.
Cinema Club's UK DVD only offers the English soundtrack, but since Delon voices himself and the rest of the cast are fairly well dubbed that's no great problem, especially since the widescreen transfer is pretty good quality.