Sophisticated crook talks ex-crook and now respectable business man into one last caper. This highly planned and well executed crime goes off without a hitch until rival bad guys want a piece of the action.
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| Jean Gabin | ... | Denis Farrand | |
| Robert Stack | ... | Jim Beckley | |
| Margaret Lee | ... | Betty | |
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Jean Topart | ... | Monsieur Henri |
| Walter Giller | ... | Maurice Labrousse | |
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Georges Aminel | ... | Le commissaire Leduc |
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Albert Michel | ... | Gaston |
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Henri Coutet | ... | Le vigile |
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Pierre Koulak | ... | Ange Peresi |
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Mino Doro | ... | Luigi Savani |
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Bob Ingarao | ... | Un complice |
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Carlo Nell | ... | Un malfrat |
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Pierre Moncorbier | ... | Le client ivre (as Moncorbier) |
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Sophisticated crook talks ex-crook and now respectable business man into one last caper. This highly planned and well executed crime goes off without a hitch until rival bad guys want a piece of the action.
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FrenchRelease Date:
1969 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Action Man See more »Filming Locations:
Studios de Billancourt - 50 Quai du Point du Jour, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, FranceCompany Credits
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Mono (Westrex Sound System)Color:
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Robert Stack says in his biography that Jean Gabin - whom he called the French Spencer Tracy - was a person very pleasant to work with. Their relationship was very good. But Robert Stack also admitted have spent the Christmas Eve, alone, far from his family, because of the shooting, at Hotel George V in Paris. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Jean Gabin has three or four good businesses, he's married to beautiful authoress Suzanne Fion, he gets to slap around the waiter who tries to turn his restaurant into a cocaine pitch and he's bored. He plans a robbery of the bank across from his bar -- they've got a half-billion-franc payroll every month, like clockwork -- but doesn't really expect to do anything about it until his old buddy, Robert Stack shows up out of nowhere.
The movie has a beautiful set-piece robbery, Gabin slaps around several people and there is plenty of sadism and treachery, yet I found the movie to be good, but not the great fun I had expected. Perhaps I had gone in expecting too much, but Gabin is too old to play the virile action hero, so he's the brains of the operation, and Stack is the brawn. And Stack is never brutal or commanding or anything more than Gabin's efficient sidekick, his loyal dog, who has been looking for Gabin since he disappeared from Indo-China in 1954.
It's understandable, because it's Gabin, but it means that there's little depth to it. It's just a well-run caper film running along its clockwork mechanisms. that's a lot of fun, but nothing more.