Daggers Drawn (1964)
"À couteaux tirés" (original title)

Director:

Charles Gérard

Writers:

Charles Gérard (screenplay), Charles Gérard (story),

Stars:

Françoise Arnoul, Petula Clark, Marcel Dalio

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Françoise Arnoul	...	Lucie Antonini
Petula Clark	...	Herself / En personne
Marcel Dalio	...	Jean Grégor / Gregor Veloni
René Havard	...	Bobby
Daniel Ivernel	...	Le commissaire Mattei
Pierre Mondy	...	Robert Antonini
Jacques Monod	...	Lucien Leonetti
Jean Marchat	...	L'avocat de Robert
François Maistre	...	Le médecin
Mercédès Molinar	...	Sandra (as Mercedes Moliner)
Ricky Cooper	...	L'Américain
Yves Barsacq	...	Fernand
Monique Marée	...	(as Monique Mary)
Richard Bigotini	...	Un prévenu (as Robert Deconinck)
Luc Charpentier

Storyline

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

25 March 1964 (France)

Also Known As:

The Drawn Knives

Company Credits

Production Co:

Filmatec

Technical Specs

Runtime:

83 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Did You Know?

Trivia

Top billed Petula Clark only appears after 36 minutes of screening.

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Connections

Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 5 (1998)

User Reviews

An interesting french B thriller

As all the films Charles Gerard made, this one is not ambitious, not a masterpiece, but pretty well done, with a good atmosphere; sixties one, jazzy with Paris by Night, its limelight and so on...

The cast is not usual, especially Pierre Mondy as a hood of honor, a real man, hard boiled thug, but engaging. Some sequences are unexpected for this kind of features. And sometimes, the movie focuses on subordinate characters. I like that.

The film tells the story of a treasure and documents hunt, twenty years after WW2. Not really a spy film, rather a film noir "à la française". Murders, investigation, good character study for which you are surprised.

But it is not a memorable yarn. Nevertheless I keep it in my collection. For the atmosphere, not the story.