Word: gabin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrange the details of the deal, the three little pigs import a big bad wolf-a famous funny-moneyman known as Le Dab (Jean Gabin). They offer the aged but by no means senile counterfeiter a quarter share in the enterprise. "Two million dollars. Split it four ways and what have you got?" the brothelkeeper purrs. "Twenty years," Le Dab snorts, and demands half the loot. Slyly the three little pigs pretend to give in, but secretly they plan to eat high on the wolf before the deal is done. Or will the wolf make a meal of singed pork...
...Paris, remain faithful to the stern old cult that holds: "Grazing and tilling are the two breasts of France." They call BB a cumulard, or land-grabber, and bewail the fact that in recent years the actress and 37 other wealthy city slickers−among them Movie ActorJean Gabin−have all staked out exurbanite estates in Orne. This has inflated land values (current price: up to $900 an acre) and displaced tenant farmers, who complain that they can no longer find farms to rent in the region...
Fortnight ago, 700 local peasants advertised their ire by descending before dawn on Bonnefoi, the 400-acre farm owned by Tough Guy Gabin, 58, who recently bought up two other nearby holdings totaling 250 acres. The posse cut the phone lines and otherwise vandalized his property while their spokesmen argued with Gabin, who refused to rent his land to tenants, announced angrily and in haste that he would sell his two new farms−in all probability, to other cumulards, since they are worth nearly $200,000. Last week public indignation at the farmers' lawless tactics, raising memories...
...this melange of cliches, however, there is one stereotype that is always' delightful: Jean Gabin. After the initial shock of seeing him without grey hair and enormous bags under his eyes (in this condition he bears an uncomfortable resemblance to Spencer Tracy) one quickly realizes that the head hood is unchanging. Gabin emerges from his cores with his usual aplomb and his gloriously rumpled deadpan intact. He is the only criminal around who can slap everybody in sight, including two lovely ladies, without ever appearing to be anything more than a pompous but lovable businessman a little out of sorts...
...Grisbi is too much even for Gabin. And the rest of the cast plods through this meandering script with about as much determination as a group of students heading for a nine o'clock class. Even the machine-gun fire moves slowly...