Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CROOK. Four movie-struck factory workers cast themselves as Robin Hoods and quit their jobs to play a crimefilled scenario in the streets of Paris. The fun and games end when a real cop tries to arrest them. Four French unknowns turn in poignant performances under the sensitive direction of Claude Lelouch (A Man and A Woman...
...CROOK. Four movie-struck factory workers cast themselves as Robin Hoods and quit their jobs to play a crime-filled scenario in the streets of Paris. The fun and games end when a real cop tries to arrest them. Four French unknowns turn in poignant performances under the sensitive direction of Claude Lelouche (A Man and A Woman...
Every first-rate criminal lawyer has a consuming passion: to get his client acquitted. It is a passion that troubles many Americans. If the accused seems to be an obvious crook, how can any honest lawyer fight for his freedom...
...Crook is the tragicomic tale of four film-flammed factory workers who quit their pedestrian jobs to go on a crime-filled joyride through the streets of Paris. A quartet of cut-rate Belmon-dos, they see themselves essentially as Robin Hoods, but swiftly become a pack of robbing hoods; their crimes escalate from glomming some gum to heisting a locomotive to kidnaping an actress...
...story of criminals who meet a Bad End after the Big Caper is nothing new. What keeps Crook going straight are the poignant performances of the four French unknowns who play the hoods, and the sensitive direction of Claude Lelouche (A Man and A Woman). At 30, Lelouche understands only too well the movie-maimed members of his own generation who have turned their backs on life to make themselves over in the images of a reel world...