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...switch on this, as refined in Rififi (1956), things are the other way round: attractive criminals get girls, gats and a clockwork plan for a caper, and the audience roots for them to The End. French clockwork, however, is not always reliable, and this amoral little melodrama starring Jean Gabin and Alain Delon ticks only intermittently...
...time loser dourly dedicated to his craft, Gabin comes out of prison and plunges right into a plot to lift 1,000,000,000 francs from the Palm Beach Casino in Cannes. But suspense-wise the film fails to break even until Accomplice Delon takes up a tommy gun, crawls on his belly through an air conditioning duct that appears approximately as long and tortuous as the Grande Corniche, and shinnies down an elevator cable into the casino's vault-just in time to break the bank...
Grand Illusion evoked nostalgia for the comfortable 1914 world that charmed the audiences of the thirties and continues to charm viewers today. Renoir's screenplay innovations (like the famous "Marseillaise" Scene that Micheal Curtiz lifted for Casablanca) were well supported by three superb performances from Pierre Fresnay, Jean Gabin, and Erich von Stroheim...
Monkey in Winter. When Jean Gabin gets drunk he thinks he is back in China. When Jean-Paul Belmondo gets drunk he thinks he is back in Spain. When they both get drunk in a village on the coast of Normandy the customer may sometimes wonder where in the world he is and why he isn't somewhere else. After a few hundred shots he will probably begin to giggle more or less continuously, even though he knows he will be sorry in the morning. Gabin is a merry old soak. He is also the grand...
Money, Money, Money. Jean Gabin plays a canny old counterfeiter in a clever French comedy that tells how to make money without really working...