Word: gangland
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...inevitable that the Chicago federal grand jury investigating Giancana's crime syndicate would ask her to sing a little. Phyllis warbled for 1 hr. 15 min., reportedly telling all about their jaunts to Europe and the Caribbean but denying any knowledge of Sam's gangland affairs. And she kept right on chattering to reporters saying that "my family is heartbroken," and indicating that Sam is still her man. At last Lawyer Edward Bennet Williams thrust her firmly into a cab with a crisp "Phyllis, for God's sake, let me do the talking...
...agent in France, posing as a gangland dope racketeer, arranged a buy from an international narcotics ring. French police closed in just as a batch of heroin was delivered to the agent. The deliveryman shot his way free, but he and the gang's ringleaders were arrested later. > In late 1962, agents got wind of a pair of brothers who were peddling heroin in New York-one taking orders in his East Harlem clothing and toy store, the other delivering the "junk" in his taxicab. An undercover agent made a buy of 102 gm. of heroin...
...hood who bumps off a fence to get the loot from the big Avenue Mozart jewel robbery. Then, on Maurice's next job, somebody tips the gendarmes. Who? Is Belmondo le doulos, the stoolie? It looks that way until Belmondo uses the Mozart swag to triple-cross a gangland czar, gets Maurice sprung from jail, and splits a pile of G notes with his old copain. It takes a long flashback to tie all the subplots together in time for a grisly finale...
...zipping right along, pursued by a camera that emphasizes the gritty black-and-whites of his murderous milieu. Admittedly hooked on oldtime U.S. gangster movies, Melville manages to make Paris look like the back lot at Warner Brothers. Doulos, in consequence, seldom seems more than an ambitious hybrid, a gangland epic with Gaul...
...Number Can Win. In the vintage Hollywood gangland formula, crooks are 98% repulsive and viewers can't wait to see them burn. In the French 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...