After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino.After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino.After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino.
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7.6/10
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- Director
- Writers
- Jean-Pierre Melville(original story)
- Auguste Le Breton(adaptation)
- Stars
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- Director
- Writers
- Jean-Pierre Melville(original story)
- Auguste Le Breton(adaptation)
- Stars
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Isabelle Corey
- Anneas Anne
- (as Isabel Corey)
Henry Allaume
- Un gangsteras Un gangster
- (as Henri Allaume)
Germaine Licht
- Céleste Régnieras Céleste Régnier
- (as Germaine Amiel)
Jannick Arvel
- La deuxième fille du baras La deuxième fille du bar
- (as Yannick Arvel)
- Director
- Writers
- Jean-Pierre Melville(original story) (adaptation)
- Auguste Le Breton(adaptation) (dialogue)
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Did you know
- TriviaJean-Pierre Melville auditioned Alain Delon for the character of Paolo. He rejected him for fear he would steal the show.
- GoofsMcKimmie demonstrates the four-dial combination-lock for the gang by turning all four dials before opening and closing it. But when Roger practices his safe-cracking technique on it, he misses the upper-right dial and instead works the lower-right dial a second time (after sandpapering his fingertips).
- Quotes
[subtitled version]
Bob Montagné: I was born here. It was not so dirty then. And I left to conquer the world. I was fourteen when I left my mother.
Anne: Did you go far?
Bob Montagné: Yes... a mile away.
Anne: And your father?
Bob Montagné: I use my mother's name.
Anne: She was unlucky with you both.
Bob Montagné: I returned ten years later, early one morning. I saw an old woman on her knees, scrubbing away, as she always had. That's how I recognized her. I left without a word. Then I sent her a postal order each month. One month it was sent back. She had stopped scrubbing.
- ConnectionsEdited into Journal D'un Malfrat (2017)
Top review
Classic French crime movie from the 1950s. An influence on everyone from Godard and Truffaut to Paul Thomas Anderson.
Cult director Jean-Pierre Melville was originally involved with French art legend Jean Cocteau, but really found his niche making hard boiled crime movies. 'Bob le flambeur' was the first major work by him, and he kept making movies up until the early 1970s with 'Dirty Money'. His work had a huge influence on the French New Wave led Godard and Truffaut (who cast him in a supporting role in 'Breathless' as an acknowledgment), and has proved to be a major inspiration for American film makers like Scorsese, Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson whose debut 'Hard Eight' owes 'Bob le flambeur' quite a debt. 'Bob..' really knocked me out, and along with the equally brilliant 'Rififi' directed by Jules Dassin and released the same year, it's one of THE great crime movies of the 1950s, and should be mentioned in the same breath as Huston's 'The Asphalt Jungle' and Kubrick's 'The Killing'. All four films have had an enormous influence on most subsequent movies in the heist genre. 'Bob's plot is quite simple but the story itself isn't the half of it. What Melville DOESN'T say is just as important as what he does, and the viewer has to piece a lot of it together for himself. Roger Duchesne is super cool as Bob, the ageing gambler on a perpetual bad streak, Daniel Cauchy is excellent as his cocky young protege Paolo, and Isabelle Corey is sexy and intriguing as Anne, the jailbait who gets involved with them both. Personally I prefer this movie and 'Rififi' to 'Breathless' and any French New Wave I've seen to date, but that says as much about my taste as much as the movies themselves. Even so I highly recommend 'Bob le flambeur' to anybody who involves crime movies. It's a classic of the genre, and still fantastically entertaining.
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- Infofreak
- Apr 27, 2003
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- Fever Heat
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- FRF 17,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $15,586
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,623
- Jan 7, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $15,586
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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