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Written by James M. Tate / 8/23/2026 / No comments / 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'

<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...

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