Word: leflambeur
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...cinema the name of the author of Moby Dick . It was intended as an homage to the things American that he admired - most particularly genre crime films. It is therefore an irony that his work is so little known in the United States, though Bob LeFlambeur, released here in the ?80s, about robbing the take at a Deauville casino, is the greatest heist movie I?ve ever seen. It is more than an irony - it is a great sadness - that Melville died suddenly of a stroke when he was only 55 years old. Still, he left behind a small, coherent...
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