ALAIN DELON IN THE HIT-MAN NEO-NOIR THRILLER 'LE SAMOURAÏ'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH9U7AuM0AF-xXh0cFIYvskSH0yU9bJDQbXG_5MIS9M0cMo4ok51mF17m4atk-8ENPsDiRJK4_KLQSBIDTzQ03jow2GmIfWWCRVbc0E445-imwSxnGzsz4UlaSVfleD6dKc_L1UtA_vKfkZxWJXJd7Vav31orRdfeviryIMBXmF2SoirFzK2DkafVWQdmY/s1264/image1787470466.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="845" data-original-width="1264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH9U7AuM0AF-xXh0cFIYvskSH0yU9bJDQbXG_5MIS9M0cMo4ok51mF17m4atk-8ENPsDiRJK4_KLQSBIDTzQ03jow2GmIfWWCRVbc0E445-imwSxnGzsz4UlaSVfleD6dKc_L1UtA_vKfkZxWJXJd7Vav31orRdfeviryIMBXmF2SoirFzK2DkafVWQdmY/s1600/image1787470466.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: LE SAMOURAÏ American Title: THE GODSON Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It would be almost blasphemous in the crime genre neo-noir circles to say that <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/06/DRIVER.html">Walter Hill's THE DRIVER</a>, which is basically a remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAÏ, is superior... but Walter's Hill's THE DRIVER is superior to Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAÏ... and vastly so...<br><br>Although looking terrifically cool around sparse settings and harboring an overall slow-burn cadence, Alain Delon's hit-man Jef Costello makes Ryan O'Neal's deliberately sluggish getaway driver seem like the rambling, semi-crooked, stubbornly determined token cop Bruce Dern, who almost single-handedly makes the Hill movie better than it would've been otherwise... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

alain delon, catherine jourdan, cathy rosier, cop, french, hit man, jean-pierre melville, nathalie delon, neo noir, sixties

ALAIN DELON IN THE HIT-MAN NEO-NOIR THRILLER 'LE SAMOURAÏ'

Title: LE SAMOURAÏ American Title: THE GODSON Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2 It would be almost blasphemous in the crime genre neo-noir circles to...

ALAIN DELON, JEAN GABIN AND LINO VENTURA 'THE SICILIAN CLAN'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaCF2rMPbW1FELmCkP690lEfYh-MCHqHv4bs8mpMBOkMrgZao_cBflN3kmh-aY1bDn4lajf3p-346GsbndMipxsQcWCZeOUBtp5tdgOPl_ydg5pnn6PY74fyj6odD01YnHoqOCK5WhrDeW_x39Bv2tHf0Kxi1njtION2V1ZVyq3TkSHQ40z9Az2dV3g6x/s1360/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="1360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaCF2rMPbW1FELmCkP690lEfYh-MCHqHv4bs8mpMBOkMrgZao_cBflN3kmh-aY1bDn4lajf3p-346GsbndMipxsQcWCZeOUBtp5tdgOPl_ydg5pnn6PY74fyj6odD01YnHoqOCK5WhrDeW_x39Bv2tHf0Kxi1njtION2V1ZVyq3TkSHQ40z9Az2dV3g6x/s1600/unnamed.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Alain Delon and Jean Gabin in THE SICILIAN CLAN Year: 1969 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The French/Italian mafia thriller THE SICILIAN CLAN not only stars three famous foreign actors, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura and Jean Gabin, but each character takes up their own part of the three acts...<br><br>Starting out with one of the coolest jailbreaks... actually from a prison bus carrying Delon's career-criminal, given tools to cut a box-shape on the bus's floor, neatly timed against the guard and providing a genuinely nail-biting sequence... soon followed by another breakout: from a hotel window the morning after a hooker hookup... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

alain delon, danielle volle, french, heist, irina demick, italian, jean gabin, lino ventura, neo noir, sixties, sydney chaplin

ALAIN DELON, JEAN GABIN AND LINO VENTURA 'THE SICILIAN CLAN'

Alain Delon and Jean Gabin in THE SICILIAN CLAN Year: 1969 Rating: *** The French/Italian mafia thriller THE SICILIAN CLAN not only stars th...

ALAIN DELON WITH CHARLES BRONSON IN 'FAREWELL, FRIEND'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr_-31b4KOwIYtc8boMIiREqcabWNd08wmN_oPfFBWlAMUUPWf4j040-MnR7szF6socpk4hariW4s_td_l1QqFd5BNvicPBfCSf-tklf5WSYkhmR6pzwh-PmLhi6j-LhyphenhyphenVN5sLcfKQSaQV0RF0Q-hAsElRYBfIER5LahlyQXIk890E5DaE-6KWVetSqGY_/s2112/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-22%20at%201.58.46%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="2112" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr_-31b4KOwIYtc8boMIiREqcabWNd08wmN_oPfFBWlAMUUPWf4j040-MnR7szF6socpk4hariW4s_td_l1QqFd5BNvicPBfCSf-tklf5WSYkhmR6pzwh-PmLhi6j-LhyphenhyphenVN5sLcfKQSaQV0RF0Q-hAsElRYBfIER5LahlyQXIk890E5DaE-6KWVetSqGY_/w400-h265/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-22%20at%201.58.46%20PM.png" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>FAREWELL, FRIEND Year: 1968 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The title FAREWELL, FRIEND makes no sense yet are actual words spoken by one of two anti-buddy buddies who'd spent years in the Foreign Legion without knowing each other, but they get off the same boat with a load of expository dialogue that you best keep a scorecard to follow the shoddy pulp-inspired plot as, basically and ultimately, this odd couple... one a French medic, the other a crooked American... attempt to crack a big safe in a large, well-armed, multi-guarded building... And why the title's nonsensical is that Bronson's pimp character says things for no apparent reason, especially "Yeah!" whenever something happens that makes him feel like saying... "Yeah!" </p><p></p><p>But Alain Delon is the tough silent type, and this film's obvious lead, actually having hand-picked Bronson from admiring his zesty performance as <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/08/early-chuck.html">MACHINE GUN KELLY</a> eight-years earlier... What's ironic is Delon keeps Bronson from reaching equally ferocious heights by either a punch in the nose or a macho wrestling match, especially in a painfully overlong sequence where, during that epic second-act heist, both get locked inside a strongroom, close to death, followed by Bronson being beaten/interrogated and Delon beating-up the film's nice girl Brigitte Fossey while having initially fallen sap to sneaky double-crossing femme fatalle Olga Georges-Picot... Perhaps if FAREWELL, FRIEND was a dark comedy, and didn't take itself so seriously, it'd have a more even-keeled groove... And get this... Bronson <i>wouldn't </i>be the straight man!</p><span></span>

alain delon, brigitte fossey, buddy, charles bronson, crime, exploitation, french, heist, mob, olga georges-picot, seventies

ALAIN DELON WITH CHARLES BRONSON IN 'FAREWELL, FRIEND'

FAREWELL, FRIEND Year: 1968 Rating: *** The title FAREWELL, FRIEND makes no sense yet are actual words spoken by one of two anti-buddy buddi...

MIMSY FARMER, JEAN GABIN & ALAIN DELON 'TWO MEN IN TOWN'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPOMl_uTuRbK9LUhuRXUAoY7Axx9HVDw0SUqjsrbLy8rXY0x3wiDb2ytos4pNkdOQoIFtAnnNWiPeYFchzMHn_gPK6S_fDlIGrEr7j_GzOsFNysqajkswnt4Z4apFal64HUBLBhTK3zKfuh5QwxzVfsjR3lA_2hbCVb9xTE8wk2SeuJPq0kVwb2TSjUyXu/s2164/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-11%20at%201.04.45%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1480" data-original-width="2164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPOMl_uTuRbK9LUhuRXUAoY7Axx9HVDw0SUqjsrbLy8rXY0x3wiDb2ytos4pNkdOQoIFtAnnNWiPeYFchzMHn_gPK6S_fDlIGrEr7j_GzOsFNysqajkswnt4Z4apFal64HUBLBhTK3zKfuh5QwxzVfsjR3lA_2hbCVb9xTE8wk2SeuJPq0kVwb2TSjUyXu/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-11%20at%201.04.45%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer and Michel Bouquet in TWO MEN IN TOWN Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>French New Wave director José Giovanni's TWO MEN IN TOWN is obviously inspired by Victor Hugo's LES MISÉRABLES, but for a 1970's crime fan it will be most reminiscent of the late-seventies STRAIGHT TIME starring Dustin Hoffman... <br><br>Based on a 1973 novel NO BEAST SO FIERCE (same year as this feature) by Edward Bunker, particularly the second-act plot-line involving a badgering police inspector, who had originally arrested bank robber Alain Delon for the ten years that social worker Jean Gabin gets him out early from in the film's semi-optimistic prelude...</p><p><span></span></p>

alain delon, crime, french, gérard depardieu, ilaria ccchini, jean gabin, josé giovanni, malka ribowska, michel bouquet, mimsy farmer, neo noir, seventies, thriller

MIMSY FARMER, JEAN GABIN & ALAIN DELON 'TWO MEN IN TOWN'

Mimsy Farmer and Michel Bouquet in TWO MEN IN TOWN Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 French New Wave director José Giovanni's TWO MEN IN TOWN is...

PETER SELLERS, BRITT EKLAND & VICTOR MATURE 'AFTER THE FOX'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik2yYKAeosus31RNiQfBZPjomm1z3tiMeeSDhCjGpE9pnvDoddXutx5iuNnvsaWGRdeAM25WChylhc_CsbsUw_TUivXuuMzb7r2chOqWx1SffFIcsZ1B7vH9Omj8AmCGt4RIsk-nWK4BzKdWHU95wwT9I6dsC04USv_mps2bf8i0oRRy5JazDFTBrCibjV/s1604/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-02%20at%206.25.54%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="1604" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik2yYKAeosus31RNiQfBZPjomm1z3tiMeeSDhCjGpE9pnvDoddXutx5iuNnvsaWGRdeAM25WChylhc_CsbsUw_TUivXuuMzb7r2chOqWx1SffFIcsZ1B7vH9Omj8AmCGt4RIsk-nWK4BzKdWHU95wwT9I6dsC04USv_mps2bf8i0oRRy5JazDFTBrCibjV/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-02%20at%206.25.54%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: AFTER THE FOX Year: 1966 Rates: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Victor Mature plays an aged, has-been actor who spends so much time bickering with agent Martin Balsam about doing or <i>not</i> doing a French existential film, you'll simply want things to narrow into what the <i>real</i> movie's about as AFTER THE FOX doesn't mean <i>what follows</i> but <i>who's followin</i>g Peter Sellers' criminal named Fox, who broke out of prison, in disguise, and there's plenty of humor but not enough laughs... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Shame since the cinematography's so gorgeous, a satire on the pretentious side of 1960's French New Wave cinema, ironically directed by 1950's minimalist BICYCLE THIEVES auteur Vittorio De Sica, not allowing either his funny guy (Sellers) or straight man (Mature) enough time together... </p><p><span></span></p>

akim tamiroff, brit ekland, british, comedy, cult, french, heist, jailbreak, maria grazia buccella, peter sellers, post-heist, satire, sixties, victor mature

PETER SELLERS, BRITT EKLAND & VICTOR MATURE 'AFTER THE FOX'

Title: AFTER THE FOX Year: 1966 Rates: *** Victor Mature plays an aged, has-been actor who spends so much time bickering with agent Martin B...

CHARLES BRONSON 'SOMEONE BEHIND THE DOOR' ANTHONY PERKINS

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg43OvFQeoAKMVIwH2Ybmcvt2ytnPIZqte8_Q87z6-84iNChYWuzNGwTLrR0hwBzw9jttzEnE5ImUlpZUmKlHMFPIYiPElSeFzHLBch3wRPjGOb4Y__4G0bQmvDbqpYwd7KBqhyRCLF2CPHbpX8sNvGiElyaO13i75iOnwUVpFzI-zTKZmDZflIEgdY2x0f/s1960/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-21%20at%205.58.08%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="1960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg43OvFQeoAKMVIwH2Ybmcvt2ytnPIZqte8_Q87z6-84iNChYWuzNGwTLrR0hwBzw9jttzEnE5ImUlpZUmKlHMFPIYiPElSeFzHLBch3wRPjGOb4Y__4G0bQmvDbqpYwd7KBqhyRCLF2CPHbpX8sNvGiElyaO13i75iOnwUVpFzI-zTKZmDZflIEgdY2x0f/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-21%20at%205.58.08%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: 1971 Title: SOMEONE BEHIND THE DOOR Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>French shot/English speaking psychological thriller mirroring François Truffaut mirroring Alfred Hitchcock has a perfectly cast Anthony Perkins as a neurosurgeon taking an amnesiac patient to his plush home in order to (supposedly) help the nameless stranger, played by an only slightly miscast Charles Bronson, pacing taut and timid like a caged beast during his pre-fame <i>European Phase</i>... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But this is really Perkins' ride... more logical than <i>psycho</i> in a psychological thriller... providing another hiding-a-dark-secret creepy guy role... And from the mellow cadence, what could have been cat-and-mouse is more like mouse-and-mouse, or mouse and toothless cat, even during Bronson's sporadic tantrums in a noirish plot involving Jill Ireland as the doc's cheating wife (employing a cute Agathe Natanson as their maid, who'd have fit the ingenue role better)... </p><span></span>

agathe natanson, anthony perkins, charles bronson, french, jill ireland, mystery, nicolas gessner, seventies, thriller

CHARLES BRONSON 'SOMEONE BEHIND THE DOOR' ANTHONY PERKINS

Title: 1971 Title: SOMEONE BEHIND THE DOOR Rating: ***1/2 French shot/English speaking psychological thriller mirroring François Truffaut mi...

HARVEY KEITEL AND ROMY SCHNEIDER IN 'DEATH WATCH'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmqjJRNvmXnWgdxdqJO6WsfKU7E0O5mgJYGP2QSbUbHMMONmuh0SSSGvcWJMjvi5p4Oo96k73qrF1YoRmzdDJuysp2B4Bzng0b9Avo8NaHocs4SQConsHIGSbU1XMN16ocLj2dwP9vb69dBjR9xJODzl40txOWS-TkPoKwQr4LIbzIJiZKYKSlBs3JtQ/s1915/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="988" data-original-width="1915" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmqjJRNvmXnWgdxdqJO6WsfKU7E0O5mgJYGP2QSbUbHMMONmuh0SSSGvcWJMjvi5p4Oo96k73qrF1YoRmzdDJuysp2B4Bzng0b9Avo8NaHocs4SQConsHIGSbU1XMN16ocLj2dwP9vb69dBjR9xJODzl40txOWS-TkPoKwQr4LIbzIJiZKYKSlBs3JtQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: DEATH WATCH aka </u><u>LA MORT EN DIRECT aka DER GEKAUFTE TOD Year: 1980 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An intense firebrand of a crime-genre actor playing against type during the 1970's Renaissance opposite a beautiful dying European woman is reminiscent of BOBBY DEERFIELD, where Al Pacino put the breaks on his otherwise aggressive persona as a subdued race car driver driving around with doomed Martha Keller, and Harvey Keitel opposite Romy Schneider will seem like deja vu, only it's science-fiction along with romantic melodrama...</p><p></p><p>Both elements coexisting in a not so futuristic-looking future where people rarely die of diseases, and a television series called DEATH WATCH does what THE TRUMAN SHOW would later... </p><p><span></span></p>

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HARVEY KEITEL AND ROMY SCHNEIDER IN 'DEATH WATCH'

Title: DEATH WATCH aka LA MORT EN DIRECT aka DER GEKAUFTE TOD Year: 1980 Rating: *** An intense firebrand of a crime-genre actor playing aga...

JEAN SEBERG & STANLEY BAKER ROMANCE 'IN THE FRENCH STYLE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3ViM9fL85udSCYvryLtf3YS5u-YvEdsRfl0UVoRbcUDDSobnNNslNGiGskjbpa_JTezAQFpGLHpw5-IfiSotampL5rTKtZRGPWSn7QDVWzfZ4XR-OXDClhoen5uHHV3jOrSEBXGEskpVjV87P-oxuOpFCpIHDy_KVmE1QnmUaz9LhysvKxZglkM0ow/s1348/AVvXsEiIDvDJK-RLmWFxXCXwaWm2BSoul4AEGR2q8GiJAmg3UXSJOF1-BCwzdkVnrIlTfzl-wC2W6Q9S5UoC1bfHE6qyA5iYhhwJjiu8N0WTovXx_dp1WiquB1rWgeqpK-DCl9Yhi3bvU3w7aQ4rx6v5RNf7kPMD2V3etrihm8d8UkCM1krLpQs0bou9KxuGKA=s16000.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="1235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3ViM9fL85udSCYvryLtf3YS5u-YvEdsRfl0UVoRbcUDDSobnNNslNGiGskjbpa_JTezAQFpGLHpw5-IfiSotampL5rTKtZRGPWSn7QDVWzfZ4XR-OXDClhoen5uHHV3jOrSEBXGEskpVjV87P-oxuOpFCpIHDy_KVmE1QnmUaz9LhysvKxZglkM0ow/s16000/AVvXsEiIDvDJK-RLmWFxXCXwaWm2BSoul4AEGR2q8GiJAmg3UXSJOF1-BCwzdkVnrIlTfzl-wC2W6Q9S5UoC1bfHE6qyA5iYhhwJjiu8N0WTovXx_dp1WiquB1rWgeqpK-DCl9Yhi3bvU3w7aQ4rx6v5RNf7kPMD2V3etrihm8d8UkCM1krLpQs0bou9KxuGKA=s16000.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: IN THE FRENCH STYLE Year: 1963 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Adapted by Irwin Shaw based on two of his novels, Robert Parrish's vehicle for American actress famous for French films Jean Seberg in IN THE FRENCH STYLE also <i>feels like</i> two movies in one involving two polar opposite romances...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The first with a young and opinionated French local Phillipe Forquet whose uptight, idealistic persona contrasts his innocent boyish looks, and it's unbelievable that Seberg's Christina James... an American on perma-vacation in Paris to become an artist... would have lasted in this relationship for a narrated three months, wherein the best aspects are the actual Paris exterior locations...</p><p><span></span></p>

addison powell, british, drama, french, jack hedley, james leo herlihy, jean seberg, melodrama, romance, sixties, stanley baker

JEAN SEBERG & STANLEY BAKER ROMANCE 'IN THE FRENCH STYLE'

Title: IN THE FRENCH STYLE Year: 1963 Rating: *** Adapted by Irwin Shaw based on two of his novels, Robert Parrish's vehicle for America...

STANLEY BAKER & CLAUDIA CARDINALE IN 'THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3F5Iaz-qSAP_SycYJBV9ys902j2LQCFAlW2OkeUY9WLVe5ruSRd7kPy31dv7ztcweZbhR36I6D5CEK-a4tkUoKBPwyVtfB55XcwScS8vtfvacQAAhhrOxE2A-deCEc_YVDp75Ods4IbxhiXvpXaWt8iPs9nNX_wjki5u2h1ZSVWjQhQVsbzLAe7J4KToY/s1042/Screen%20Shot%202022-02-08%20at%204.02.00%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="1042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3F5Iaz-qSAP_SycYJBV9ys902j2LQCFAlW2OkeUY9WLVe5ruSRd7kPy31dv7ztcweZbhR36I6D5CEK-a4tkUoKBPwyVtfB55XcwScS8vtfvacQAAhhrOxE2A-deCEc_YVDp75Ods4IbxhiXvpXaWt8iPs9nNX_wjki5u2h1ZSVWjQhQVsbzLAe7J4KToY/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-02-08%20at%204.02.00%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR Year: 1971 Rating: ***1.2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When PAPILLON author Henri Charrière shares a long passionate kiss with Italian bombshell Claudia Cardinale, you not only know <i>why</i> he wrote POPSY POP aka THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR aka THE 21 CARAT SNATCH, but why he cast himself in the part of an old rogue being kissed by the much-younger cult starlet...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He gets screwed as well, as in screwed-over by Cardinale playing the titular Popsy, who saunters into an extremely poor diamond-mining village in Venezuela: A uniquely ragged, dilapidated third-world location that's far more interesting than a rushed heist plot involving a helicopter vanishing with the diamonds and the girl...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, claudia cardinale, french, heist, henri charrière, import, indie, italian, seventies, spanish, stanley baker

STANLEY BAKER & CLAUDIA CARDINALE IN 'THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR'

Title: THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR Year: 1971 Rating: ***1.2 When PAPILLON author Henri Charrière shares a long passionate kiss with Italian bombsh...

JEAN GABIN IN 'PORT OF SHADOWS' AKA 'LE QUAI DES BRUMES'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKaepC0KaGQRJfTM7ZF8JNYf_1yi-1ASefdCaEH0s_DAI79dU8OBhJ9FYyLCU9YCUThjiqUUMUU1xvugYRu1W4ZO_-jkkMvXEZVC-M8OLP9jBlHqnOJE6mP_iX-yMF_PXGa--lgKX99QVLmg2dDQrZd9BEJ8k2m-1uoVG8nn47fNEgcnxnOQ332G6XvQ=s1484" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="872" data-original-width="1484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKaepC0KaGQRJfTM7ZF8JNYf_1yi-1ASefdCaEH0s_DAI79dU8OBhJ9FYyLCU9YCUThjiqUUMUU1xvugYRu1W4ZO_-jkkMvXEZVC-M8OLP9jBlHqnOJE6mP_iX-yMF_PXGa--lgKX99QVLmg2dDQrZd9BEJ8k2m-1uoVG8nn47fNEgcnxnOQ332G6XvQ=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michèle Morgan and Jean Gabin in PORT OF SHADOWS Year: 1938 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Jean Gabin stars in a <i>French Old Wave</i> late-1930's crime thriller with one of those plots you still see where a group of desperate people wind up in the same small interior locale while danger lurks outside: in this case a fog-shrouded shack in a fog-shrouded town where a big ship's on the verge of leaving... soon...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Perfect for our enigmatic hero, a soldier played by Gabin who, for whatever reasons beyond strength and temper neither we nor his far-too-easily-matched love interest Michèle Morgan has any idea of (like <i>her own</i> wild past is clouded to him)... And then Gabin's Jean quickly gets a new identity, and in most features the story would be just beginning....</p><p><span></span></p>

crime, film noir or melodrama, french, gangster, jean gabin, michel simon, michèle morgan, pierre brasseur, romance, thirties

JEAN GABIN IN 'PORT OF SHADOWS' AKA 'LE QUAI DES BRUMES'

Michèle Morgan and Jean Gabin in PORT OF SHADOWS Year: 1938 Rating: ***1/2 Jean Gabin stars in a French Old Wave late-1930's crime thri...