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Le choix des armes (1981)
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19 August 1981 (France)
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Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other...
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Yves Montand | ... | Noel Durieux |
 | Gérard Depardieu | ... | Mickey |
 | Catherine Deneuve | ... | Nicole Durieux |
 | Michel Galabru | ... | Bonnardot |
| Gérard Lanvin | ... | Sarlat |
| Jean-Claude Dauphin | ... | Ricky |
| Jean Rougerie | ... | Raymond Constantini |
| Christian Marquand | ... | Jean |
| Etienne Chicot | ... | Roland Davout |
| Richard Anconina | ... | Dany |
| Pierre Forget | ... | Serge Olivier |
| Roland Blanche | ... | Fernand |
| Marc Chapiteau | ... | Savin |
| Jean-Claude Bouillaud | ... | Andre |
| Antoine Baud |
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Choice of Arms (USA)
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135 min | USA:114 min
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.. of superlatives. This, the last of the three polars that Corneau made top-billing Montand, finds Montand retired from the mob and roughing it with Catherine Deneuve in a large country chateau where they breed thoroughbreds. Such an idyll can't last, natch, so, before you can say 'make my day, punk', enter Depardieu, hothead extaordinaire, on the lam and looking for a soft touch. Eventually we need the obligatory scene in which the ageing gunfighter dusts off the old six-shooter and wastes the wannabee new fastest gun, except, of course, that this isn't a Western but a very sophisticated and hugely enjoyable polar.It doesn't get any better than Montand and Depardieu (who had worked together earlier in Claude Sautet's 'Vincent, Paul, Francois et les autres' and would do so again in 'Jean de Florette') and with Corneau on bullhorn what's not to like. Post-war French policiers/polars are in a class of their own and provided your nose is in good working order the whiff of cordite can be identified at once as generated by Jean Pierre Melville, Alain Corneau, Tavernier, etc. This one is right out of the top drawer and would BE a top drawer on any screen it graced. Go see! Enjoy!