Le Cave se rebiffe
1961 Comedy / Crime / Thriller   
 
Credits
  • Director: Gilles Grangier
  • Script: Michel Audiard, Gilles Grangier, Albert Simonin (novel)
  • Photo: Louis Page
  • Music: Michel Legrand, Francis Lemarque
  • Cast: Jean Gabin (Ferdinand Maréchal dit 'Le Dabe'), Martine Carol (Solange Mideau), Bernard Blier (Charles Lepicard) Franck Villard (Eric Masson), Maurice Biraud (Robert Mideau), Françoise Rosay (Madame Pauline), Antoine Balpêtré (Lucas Malvoisin), Ginette Leclerc (Léa Lepicard), Gérard Buhr (Martin), Robert Dalban (Maffeux), Albert Dinan (Rémy), Heinrich Gretler (Tauchmann)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 98 min; B&W
  • Aka: Money Money Money; The Counterfeiters; The Counterfeiters of Paris
 
 
 
Summary
Eric Masson and Charles Lepicard decide that the best way to make money is… by making money.  They start up a counterfeiting operation, recruiting a retired crook Le Dabe to help them.  They also need an engraver, and so they engage Robert Mideau, an apparently naïve individual whom they intend to double cross.  However, Mideau turns out not to be as innocent as he appears...



Review
Thanks to Michel Audiard’s witty dialogue and some well-judged comic performances – notably from the great Bernard Blier – Le Cave se rebiffe makes a respectable comedy thriller, with plenty of good laughs cranked into a familiar policier plot. Jean Gabin plays the cool gangster mastermind with a pleasing touch of irony, and there's a nice cameo appearance from Françoise Rosay.  The film is significant in that it features the last notable screen appearance of Martine Carole before her untimely death in 1967.

© James Travers 2007


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