No Pockets in a Shroud (1974)
"Un linceul n'a pas de poches" (original title)

Director:

Jean-Pierre Mocky

Writers:

Horace McCoy (novel), Jean-Pierre Mocky (adaptation),

Stars:

Jean Carmet, Michel Constantin, Michel Galabru

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jean Carmet	...	Comissaire Bude
Michel Constantin	...	Culli
Michel Galabru	...	Thomas
Daniel Gélin	...	Laurence
Michael Lonsdale	...	Raymond (as Michel Lonsdale)
Jean-Pierre Marielle	...	Le docteur Carlille
Jean-Pierre Mocky	...	Michel Dolannes
Martine Sarcey	...	Madame Mardène
Michel Serrault	...	Justin Blesh
Myriam Mézières	...	Mira Barnowski
Francis Blanche	...	Nathaël Grissom
Christian Duvaleix	...	Jo
Jess Hahn	...	Walter
Sylvia Kristel	...	Avril
Alan Adair	...	David

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

desperate man | beating | foreign language adaptation | full frontal female nudity | female nudity | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

17 March 1975 (USA)

Also Known As:

No Pockets in a Shroud

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company Credits

Production Co:

Balzac Films, S.N. Prodis

Technical Specs

Runtime:

125 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

"Dolannes Melodie"
Written by Paul De Senneville and Olivier Toussaint
Performed by Jean-Claude Borelly

User Reviews

Another Mocky's botched job.

Jean -Pierre Mocky has made a lot of movies ;few gained critical acclaim and few (if any) were commercial successes.

Although an adaptation of an American novel,the movie is Frenchie to the core.It has ,mainly in its first part a crude dialog ,using the word "baiser" (=f...)in almost every line.

This film does nothing but state the obvious:a newspaper which wants to tell the truth all the truth and nothing but the truth is a hackneyed subject;and Mocky treats his subject like a bull in a china shop.Besides ,he cannot even enhance the all-star male cast (Londsdale,Serrault,Constantin...) the production generously bestowed on him;one should add that the female cast is rather poor (Sylvia "Emmanuelle" Krystel is very bad but one can see her swim in the nude in her pool).

From time to time Mocky makes a good work ("l'albatros" is probably the most interesting) but they are oases in the desert of a burned out career.