Le Cave se rebiffe / Money Money Money / Gilles Grangier / 1961 / film review

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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