3 hommes à abattre (1980)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Jacques Deray

Writers:

Jean-Patrick Manchette (novel)
Alain Delon (adaptation) ...

Release Date:

31 October 1980 (France)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Shot To Death | Heart Attack | Hitman | Killer | Arms Trade

Cast

Alain Delon	...	Michel Gerfaut
Dalila Di Lazzaro	...	Béa
Michel Auclair	...	Leprince
Pascale Roberts	...	Mme Borel
Lyne Chardonnet	...	L'infirmière au dossier
Jean-Pierre Darras	...	Chocard
Bernard Le Coq	...	Gassowitz
François Perrot	...	Etienne Germer
André Falcon	...	Jacques Mouzon
Féodor Atkine	...	Leblanc
Yvan Tanguy
Peter Bonke	...	Bastien
Daniel Breton	...	Carlo
Christian Barbier	...	Liethard
Simone Renant	...	Mme. Gerfaut

Also Known As:

Three Men to Destroy
Three Men to Kill (USA) (video catalogue title)

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Norway:16 | Singapore:NC-16 | West Germany:16 (f)

Company:

Adel Productions

Good action

I liked this, some negative comments on this board notwithstanding... I thought the action scenes were not bad for an 80s movie. It's obviously an attempt to make a Hollywood-style action flick. While there were probably better action/thriller flicks made in the 80s, I can think of many, many worse ones! Having seen it for the first time when I was 18, the high point quite obviously was Dalila Di Lazzaro's chest, a memorable scene… :) I bought a VHS copy on Ebay a few years ago, in German – that's all I could find.

What was the car he drove at the beginning of the movie, by the way? A Lancia Gamma.

As for the comment about Delon wearing white socks with black pants, that actually was considered somewhat fashionable in Europe of the 80s…. :)