Post Description

Frankrijk / Italië
Misdaad / Thriller
94 minuten

geregisseerd door Jacques Becker
met Jean Gabin, René Dary en Jeanne Moreau

Bevriende inbrekers besluiten de buit van een inbraak verborgen te houden tot de misdaad vergeten is. De vriendin van één van hen verraadt het geheim aan een andere gangster die één van de inbrekers ontvoert en van de ander de buit als losgeld eist.


------------------------------------------------------------------------------Criterion Collection # 271

DVD Release Date: January 18, 2005




Director: Jacques Becker

Description:
Jean Gabin is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max le Menteur in the Jacques Becker gem Touchez pas au grisbi (Hands Off the Loot!). Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton (Rene' Dary), MaxÆs hapless partner and best friend, lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy (Jeanne Moreau), Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. A touchstone of the gangster-film genre, Touchez pas au grisbi is also pure Becker -- understated, elegant, evocative.

READ:
Touchez pas au grisbi: Strange Reflections
by Geoffrey O'Brien
criterion.com/current/posts/353


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 7.29 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 96 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 | Non-Anamorphic

Sound (main feature): French

Subtitles: optional English


DISC FEATURES:

# New, restored high-definition digital transfer.
# 2002 video interview with actor Daniel Cauchy.
# Excerpt from an episode of the French television series Cineastes de notre temps dedicated to Jacques Becker, featuring screenwriter Maurice Griffe, Grisbi author Albert Simonin, actor Lino Ventura, and Francois Truffaut.
# 1972 interview excerpt with Lino Ventura.
# Clip from a 1978 interview with composer Jean Wiener.
# Theatrical trailer.
# New and improved English subtitle translation.


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