Word: gabin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very model of a prosperous bourgeois. Housed in comfortable, well-staffed villas, he is provided with every comfort. The amenities include French newspapers and the latest Georges Simenon detective stories, as well as at least one movie a week (his favorite, which he has seen eight times: a Jean Gabin-Sophia Loren film called Le Verdict). To keep him from settling in anywhere, however, the Boumedienne regime changes his location from time to time, secretly and without warning. Ben Bella is allowed visitors, but they are screened beforehand and taken to his home blindfolded...
Died. Jean Gabin, 72, veteran of nearly 100 films and one of France's top box office stars for four decades; following a heart attack; in Neuilly, France. A factory laborer before becoming an actor, Gabin was best known for his low-key portrayals of handsome, earthy loners: the Spanish legionnaire in La Bandera (1935), the jewel thief in Pépé le Moko (1937), the soldier-mechanic in Jean Renoir's classic, Grand Illusion (1937). His memorable later roles included the lawyer who falls in love with a prostitute (Brigitte Bardot) in Love Is My Profession...
Grand Illusion One of Renoir's knockouts, Ostensibly the first POW escape movie, set behind the lines in Germany during World War I, it is just as much a commentary on declining class mores--the end of the aristocracy and the rise of the mechanic. With Jean Gabin, Eric von Stroheim. Marcel Dalio. SYMPHONY CINEMA ONE. Wednesday and Thursday, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. Midnight Cowboy. John Schlesinger directed this intermittently moving but sometimes crude and gimmicky platonic Love Story between two buddy-buddy freak types on the fringes of Manhattan society. Superlatively acted by Jon Voight as a frustrated...
...office up the warehouse stairs, where Papa and his boys plot some elegant crimes, like springing a fellow countryman (Alain Delon) from a locked police van. Delon has managed to wangle some inside dope about the alarm system at a big jewel show in Rome's Villa Borghese. Gabin sees this as potentially the biggest heist of all time. In company with a couple of American colleagues, he sets off with the clan on one of those intricate jobs that require split-second timing, a cool eye, a steady hand, and complete suspension of disbelief...
...mechanical level and fail dismally on the human. Among the cast, Delon is effective as a cold-blooded killer whose attention is invariably diverted whenever one of Papa's daughters-in-law (Irina Demick) slinks across his pearl-handled pistol sights. Immobile and imperturbable of feature, Gabin looks more and more as if his stolid face belonged on a French equivalent of Mount Rushmore. The final and inevitable disintegration of his family may lack the tragic intensity of King Lear, but it will please devotees of The Godfather well enough...