L'alpagueur (1976)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Philippe Labro

Writers:

Philippe Labro (writer)
Jacques Lanzmann (dialogue)

Release Date:

June 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Thriller

Plot:

L'Alpagueur is a free-lance spy from the French secret agency. He's put on the investigation about L'epervier...

Plot Keywords:

Serial Killer | Bounty Hunter | Detective | Drugs | Death

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo	...	Roger Pilard, dit l'Alpagueur
Bruno Cremer	...	L'Epervier
Jean Négroni	...	Spitzer
Patrick Fierry	...	Costa Valdez
Jean-Pierre Jorris	...	Salicetti
Victor Garrivier	...	Doumecq
Claude Brosset	...	Granier
Marcel Imhoff	...	le directeur de cabinet
Maurice Auzel	...	Le routier Gros Bras
Muriel Belmondo	...	La première hôtesse de l'air
Roger Benamou	...	Le mafioso espagnol
Jean-Luc Boutté	...	Le deuxième fusil
Patrice Chapelain-Midy	...	Un employé de banque
Michèle Delacroix	...	La seconde hôtesse de l'air
Jacques Destoop	...	Le mafioso sicilien

Also Known As:

Hunter Will Get You (USA)

Runtime:

110 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:M | Sweden:15 | West Germany:16

Company:

Cerito Films

Goofs:

Continuity: The dry clothing of Roger and Costa as they emerge from the halfway filled vine vessel.

Quotes:

Le mafioso espagnol: I'm tired of honest cops.
Routier Gros Bras: Honest? Me? Don't insult me!

the beginning is more unbelievable than the end

To answer to the previous comment: finding a person knowing where he lives is quiet easy. A name on the mail box, any letter or paper in his home will give his identity. Belmondo is in the villain's house alone. OK, they could show us, but we can imagine.

What I think is worse in the story is that the "Epervier" would NEVER have let live the young man who helps him in the jewelry robbery. He kills everyone, except this young man, leaving him only injured. It's nonsense, this particular villain could not do that. He was not in such a hurry, he takes time to kill the two cops and doesn't take the time to shoot the kid! And also it's using a very bad facility in the scenario than to just make this young man, the only one the "Epervier" let live knew exactly who he was and where he lived...

I think the scenario would have been better if either the story was only between the Alpagueur and the Epervier OR between the Alpagueur and the Prison story. Two stories in the same movie makes one of them writtent quickly. I would have loved to see the Epervier character a little more explained, this was an interesting character that was underused in the movie and lost for another scenario.