Le Fauve est lâché
1959 Crime / Drama / Thriller    
Director: Maurice Labro
Starring: Lino Ventura, Estella Blain, Paul Frankeur, François Chaumette, Nadine Alari


 
Summary
Former gangster and secret services operative, Paul Lamiani is now a respected married man who owns a restaurant.  One day, he is contacted by the his former employers in the DST and asked to get in touch with his friend Marcel, who is implicated in the theft of some highly sensitive documents.  Paul has no choice but to retrieve the stolen documents, but his mission takes a nasty turn when Marcel is murdered...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)

Credits
  • Director: Maurice Labro
  • Script: Michel Audiard, François Chavane, Frédéric Dard, Jean Redon, Claude Sautet
  • Photo: Pierre Petit
  • Music: Georges Van Parys
  • Cast: Lino Ventura (Paul), Estella Blain (Nadine), Paul Frankeur (Raymond), François Chaumette (Paulan), Nadine Alari (Pierrette Lamiani), Eugene Deckers (Toni Luigi), Philippe Mareuil (Régis), Anne Valon, André Weber (Walter), Jess Hahn (Donald), Alfred Adam (Le colonel), Yves Arcanel, Jacqueline Caurat (La présentatrice), Gérard Darrieu, Guy Henry, Patrick Millow (Le fils de Paul), Roger Saget (Marcel)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 98 min; B&W
  • Aka: The Beast Is Loose; The Tiger Attacks



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