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1942 Crime / Drama
Review
Jacques Becker’s first film is a rather obvious attempt to emulate the American gangster
movie / film noir genre. It is, for all that, an impressive début for the
man who is most often credited for popularising the crime/thriller genre in France in
the 1950s.
Whilst not as stylish or confident as Becker’s subsequent policier, Touchez pas au grisbi (1953), it is an entertaining first foray in to the sleazy milieu of classic French film noir. Mindful of censorship from the occupying Germans, Becker was almost obliged to set his film in a fictitious South American country, something which reinforces the artificiality and remoteness of the film and makes apparent its American gangster film origins. © James Travers 2002 Write a review for this film...User Comments
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Director:
Jacques Becker
Starring: Mireille Balin, Raymond Rouleau, Pierre Renoir, Noël Roquevert, Catherine Cayret Synopsis
In a South American town, two police cadets must solve a real murder to decide who will
graduate. They end up pursuing America’s most notorious criminal, Toni Amanito...
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