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Bob le Flambeur

Original title: Bob le flambeur
  • 19561956
  • PGPG
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
12K
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Bob le Flambeur (1956)
After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino.
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  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Thriller
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.
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
12K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Jean-Pierre Melville
  • Writers
    • Jean-Pierre Melville(original story)
    • Auguste Le Breton(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Roger Duchesne
    • Isabelle Corey
    • Daniel Cauchy
Top credits
  • Director
    • Jean-Pierre Melville
  • Writers
    • Jean-Pierre Melville(original story)
    • Auguste Le Breton(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Roger Duchesne
    • Isabelle Corey
    • Daniel Cauchy
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 71User reviews
    • 83Critic reviews
    • 80Metascore
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    Roger Duchesne and André Garet in Bob le Flambeur (1956)
    Isabelle Corey in Bob le Flambeur (1956)
    Isabelle Corey in Bob le Flambeur (1956)
    Claude Cerval, Roger Duchesne, and André Garet in Bob le Flambeur (1956)
    Roger Duchesne in Bob le Flambeur (1956)
    Gérard Buhr and Isabelle Corey in Bob le Flambeur (1956)
    Daniel Cauchy, Isabelle Corey, and Roger Duchesne in Bob le Flambeur (1956)
    Roger Duchesne in Bob le Flambeur (1956)
    Isabelle Corey in Bob le Flambeur (1956)
    Guy Decomble, Roger Duchesne, and André Garet in Bob le Flambeur (1956)
    Daniel Cauchy in Bob le Flambeur (1956)
    Isabelle Corey in Bob le Flambeur (1956)

    Top cast

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    Roger Duchesne
    Roger Duchesne
    • Bob Montagnéas Bob Montagné
    Isabelle Corey
    Isabelle Corey
    • Anneas Anne
    • (as Isabel Corey)
    Daniel Cauchy
    Daniel Cauchy
    • Paoloas Paolo
    Guy Decomble
    • Le commissaire Ledruas Le commissaire Ledru
    André Garet
    • Rogeras Roger
    Gérard Buhr
    Gérard Buhr
    • Marcas Marc
    Claude Cerval
    Claude Cerval
    • Jeanas Jean
    Colette Fleury
    • Suzanneas Suzanne
    René Havard
    • L'inspecteur Morinas L'inspecteur Morin
    Simone Paris
    • Yvonneas Yvonne
    Howard Vernon
    Howard Vernon
    • McKimmieas McKimmie
    Henry Allaume
    • Un gangsteras Un gangster
    • (as Henri Allaume)
    Germaine Licht
    • Céleste Régnieras Céleste Régnier
    • (as Germaine Amiel)
    Yvette Amirante
    • La copine d'Anneas La copine d'Anne
    Dominique Antoine
    Jannick Arvel
    • La deuxième fille du baras La deuxième fille du bar
    • (as Yannick Arvel)
    Annick Bertrand
    • La première fille du baras La première fille du bar
    Duilio Carmine
    • Director
      • Jean-Pierre Melville
    • Writers
      • Jean-Pierre Melville(original story) (adaptation)
      • Auguste Le Breton(adaptation) (dialogue)
    • All cast & crew
    • See more cast details at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Jean-Pierre Melville auditioned Alain Delon for the character of Paolo. He rejected him for fear he would steal the show.
    • Goofs
      McKimmie 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.

    • Connections
      Edited into Journal D'un Malfrat (2017)

    User reviews71

    Review
    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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    • Apr 27, 2003

    Details

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    • Release date
      • 1959 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Official site
      • French Films site_photos
    • Languages
      • French
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Fever Heat
    • Filming locations
      • Rue Carpeaux, Paris 18, Paris, France
    • Production companies
      • Organisation Générale Cinématographique
      • Play Art
      • Productions Cyme
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • FRF 17,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $15,586
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $4,623
      • Jan 7, 2018
    • Gross worldwide
      • $15,586
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 38 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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