Peto on irti

Original title: Le fauve est lâché

19591959
K-16K-16
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

233

YOUR RATING

Crime Drama

Paul Lamiani, a former spy now managing a restaurant, has to take on duties again on a gangster's affair involving his best friend.Paul Lamiani, a former spy now managing a restaurant, has to take on duties again on a gangster's affair involving his best friend.Paul Lamiani, a former spy now managing a restaurant, has to take on duties again on a gangster's affair involving his best friend.

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

233

YOUR RATING

Directors
- Maurice Labro
- Claude Sautet(uncredited)
Writers
- Jean Redon(scenario)
- Claude Sautet(scenario)
- Frédéric Dard(dialogue)
Stars

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Estella Blain and Lino Ventura in Peto on irti (1959)

Trivia
Claude Sautet directed one third of the film after Maurice Labro fell ill.

Goofs
When Paul is meeting Raymond for the first time, as soon as he enters the house, Raymond lectures him in the hall. You can clearly see during this scene a rough cut during Raymond's speech. The actors don't have the same position and the intonation changes, indicating they were not able to shoot this scene in one go.

Connections
Featured in Matka ranskalaiseen elokuvaan (2016)

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Lino Ventura's fans might be interested.

But only them.This is routine spy thriller with a vague story of stolen documents which Ventura must recover.He was a former gangster ,then he redeemed himself during WW2, among the Resistance,but the cops want him back again and they cook him up..Hardly believable for a former resistant!But he's got to obey and the plot will involve violence ,murder,child abduction,betrayals and the whole shebang . The female lead,Estella Blain,who passed away during the eighties,was Bardot style ,as a whole lot of actresses of the era.Frédéric Dard helped for the screenplay but it was not among his best work;so did Claude Sautet who would become a renowned director in the seventies.(les choses de la vie;Vincent,François,Paul et les autres)

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