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Release year: 1963

Storyline

Broke French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet becomes bodyguard for the fugitive corrupt banker Ferchaux.

Top credits

Directors

Jean-Pierre Melville

Writers

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo — Michel Maudet
Charles Vanel — Dieudonné Ferchaux
Stefania Sandrelli — Angie, Hitch-Hiker
Malvina Silberberg — Lina

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Did you know

• During the shooting of this film, the director Jean-Pierre Melville had no respect for Charles Vanel and treated him badly on set. Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo got so mad at Melville that he slapped him on set.

• Yves Boisset, who was assistant to Melville on the shooting, confessed that Melville asked him to find some local American extras for the bar fight. And one of them was a student named Robert De Niro, who was twenty years old at this time. But Melville rejected him.

• In the New York City footage, shot circa October 1962, West Side Story is at the Rivoli, The Longest Day is at the Warner, and Mutiny on the Bounty is at the State; as the sequence ends, we also see The Chapman Report at the Criterion; theatre buffs will also see the Trans-Lux and the Forum.