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Alain Delon stars in his second of three exciting collaborations with writer-director Jean-Pierre Melville and his fourth gangster film in 1970, Le Cercle Rouge [The Red Circle]. Once again, he is ideally cast as a […]
Writer-director Jean-Pierre Melville’s rousing, stylishly stylised 1972 French crime thriller Un Flic [Dirty Money] features an ideally cast Alain Delon as a rough cop (un flic) and Richard Crenna as a tough hoodlum, two truly tough […]
Jean-Pierre Melville’s austere 1967 neo noir gangster movie Le Samouraï motors on Alain Delon’s enigmatic star turn and Henri Decaë’s stark cinematography in Eastmancolor. ‘There is no solitude greater than a samurai’s, unless perhaps it is […]
Both co-writer/director Jean-Pierre Melville and star Roger Duchesne knew the underworld at first hand, and it clearly shows here in their classic hardboiled 1955 French crime thriller, which provided inspiration for the French New Wave […]
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