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Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
''Touchez pas au grisbi'' (, French for "Don't touch the loot"), released as ''Honour Among Thieves'' in the United Kingdom and ''Grisbi'' in the United States, is a 1954 French-Italian crime film based on a novel by Albert Simonin. It was directed by Jacques Becker and stars Jean Gabin, René Dary, Paul Frankeur, Lino Ventura, Jeanne Moreau, Dora Doll, and Marilyn Buferd. The film was screened in competition at the 1954 Venice Film Festival. The film is the first installment of the so-called "Max le Menteur trilogy", which are all based on novels by Simonin, but feature different characters; it was followed by '' Le cave se rebiffe'' and ''Les tontons flingueurs'', both of which are more comedic than ''Grisbi''. Plot Max, a principled middle-aged Parisian gangster, has dinner at Madame Bouche's restaurant, a hangout for criminals, with his longtime-associate Riton, their much younger burlesque-dancer girlfriends, and Max's protege Marco. The group then goes to crime-boss Pier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Becker
Jacques Becker (; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French film director and screenwriter. His films, made during the 1940s and 1950s, encompassed a wide variety of genres, and they were admired by some of the filmmakers who led the French New Wave movement. Biography Born in Paris, Becker was from an upper-middle-class background. His father Louis Becker, from Lorraine, was corporate director for Fulmen, a battery manufacturer; his mother, Margaret Burns, of Scottish and Irish descent, managed a fashion house in rue Cambon near Chanel in Paris. He was educated at the Lycées Condorcet and Carnot and then at the École Bréguet. Becker was reluctant to pursue a business career like his father and at the age of 18 he went to New York. On a transatlantic liner he met the film director King Vidor who offered him a job but Becker turned it down. Back in France Becker developed a friendship with Jean Renoir, whom he had first met in 1921 through their mutual acqua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Jourdan
Michel Yves René Leray (2 June 1926 – 4 August 1985), better known by the stage name of Michel Jourdan, was French film actor. Jourdan died in Paris on 4 August 1985, at the age of 59. Selected filmography * '' The Passenger'' (1949) * '' Mammy'' (1951) * ''They Were Five'' (1952) * ''At the Edge of the City'' (1953) * '' Burning Fuse'' (1957) * '' The Cat'' (1958) * ''The Cat Shows Her Claws ''The Cat Shows Her Claws'' (French: ''La chatte sort ses griffes'') is a 1960 French war drama film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Françoise Arnoul, Horst Frank and François Guérin.Bessy & Chirat p.287 It was shot at the Billancourt S ...'' (1960) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1926 births 1985 deaths Actors from Nantes French male film actors {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo Dessy
Angelo Dessy (10 July 1907 - 17 January 1983) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1940 to 1974. Filmography References External links * 1907 births 1983 deaths Italian male film actors {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Cauchy
Daniel Cauchy (13 March 1930 – 8 May 2020) was a French film actor and producer. He was known for his role in Jean-Pierre Melville's 1956 crime film ''Bob le flambeur''. He died from COVID-19. His son Didier Cauchy also became an actor. Partial filmography * ''Nous irons à Monte-Carlo'' (1951) - Un fan de Melissa (uncredited) * ''L'Amour, Madame'' (1952) - Patrick -un jeune homme * ''The Green Glove'' (1952) - Minor Role (uncredited) * '' Crimson Curtain'' (1952) - Léon * '' Follow That Man'' (1953) - Pierrot * ''When You Read This Letter'' (1953) - Biquet * ''Maternité clandestine'' (1953) - Mickey * ''His Father's Portrait'' (1953) - L'existentialiste (uncredited) * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1954) - Bruno * ''Touchez pas au Grisbi'' (1954) - Fifi * ''Les Impures'' (1954) - Dédé * ''Huis-clos'' (1954) - (uncredited) * ''The Price of Love'' (1955) - Paulo * '' Black Dossier'' (1955) - Jo * ''Nights of Montmartre'' (1955) - Julien * ''Impasse des vertus'' (1955) - F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaby Basset
Gaby Basset (29 March 1902 Varennes-Saint-Sauveur, Saône-et-Loire, France – 7 October 2001 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France) was a French film actress.Goble p.37 Selected filmography * '' Everybody Wins'' (1930) - Simone * ''Le poignard malais'' (1931) - Maggy * '' Departure'' (1931) - Carmen * ''Par habitude'' (1932) - Madame Roussel * ''Mannequin'' (1933) - Rose * ''Pour être aimé'' (1933) * ''Le coq du régiment'' (1933) * ''Les deux 'Monsieur' de Madame'' (1933) - Léonie * ''Le gros lot'' (1933) * ''Le fakir du Grand Hôtel'' (1934) - Titi * ''La châtelaine du Liban'' (1934) - Maroussia * '' Prince Jean'' (1934) - Fernande * ''Un tour de cochon'' (1934) * ' (1935) - Mado (uncredited) * ''La vierge du rocher'' (1935) - La petite Anna * ''Le tampon du colonel'' (1935) * ''La rosière des Halles'' (1935) - Françoise * ''Fanfare of Love'' (1935) - Poupette * ''Un soir de bombe'' (1935) - Lily * ''La coqueluche de ces dames'' (1935) * ''La mariée du régiment'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio Sanipoli
Vittorio Sanipoli (1915–1992) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. He appeared in around a hundred films and television series between 1942 and 1980. Life and career Born Luciano Sanipoli in Genoa, he made his acting debut in 1939 in the Roman Calò's stage company Society of Mystery Shows. Quite soon he was cast in leading roles in dramas, achieving popularity and critical appreciation after World War II for his performances in ''Detective Story'' and ''Anne of the Thousand Days'' (both represented in 1951) and winning a San Genesio Award in 1957, for his performance in Virginio Puecher's ''Il Revisore''. Sanipoli made his film debut in 1942, starring in two adventure films based on Emilio Salgari's novels, ''Il figlio del Corsaro Rosso'' and ''Gli ultimi filibustieri'', under the stage name Vittorio Sanni. After war, he continued his film career with dozens of roles, even if mainly consisting of supporting or character roles. While most of his performances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jukebox
A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patron's selection from self-contained media. The classic jukebox has buttons, with letters and numbers on them, which are used to select a specific record. Some may use compact discs instead. Disc changers are similar devices that are intended for home use, are small enough to fit in a shelf, may hold up to hundreds of discs, and allow discs to be easily removed, replaced, and inserted by the user. History Coin-operated music boxes and player pianos were the first forms of automated coin-operated musical devices. These devices used paper rolls, metal disks, or metal cylinders to play a musical selection on an actual instrument, or on several actual instruments, enclosed within the device. In the 1890s, these devices were joined by machines which used recordings instead of actual physical instruments. In 1889, Louis Glass and William S. Arnold invented the nickel-in-th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fence (criminal)
A fence, also known as a receiver, mover, or moving man, is an individual who knowingly buys stolen goods in order to later resell them for profit. The fence acts as a middleman between thieves and the eventual buyers of stolen goods who may not be aware that the goods are stolen. As a verb (e.g. "''to fence'' stolen goods"), the word describes the behaviour of the thief in the transaction with the fence. As is the case with the word ''fence'' and its derivatives when used in its other common meanings (i.e. as a type of barrier or enclosure, and also as a sport), the word in this context is derived from the word ''defence.'' Among criminals, the ''fence'' originated in thieves' slang tracing from the notion of such transactions providing a "defence" against being caught. The thief who patronises the fence is willing to accept a low profit margin in order to reduce their risks by instantly "washing their hands" of illicitly gotten loot (such as black market goods) and disasso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orly Airport
Paris Orly Airport (french: Aéroport de Paris-Orly), commonly referred to as Orly , is one of two international airports serving the French capital, Paris, the other one being Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG). It is located partially in Orly and partially in Villeneuve-le-Roi, south of Paris, France. It serves as a secondary hub for domestic and overseas territories flights of Air France and as the homebase for Transavia France. Flights operate to destinations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean and North America. Before the opening of Charles de Gaulle Airport in 1974, Orly was the main airport of Paris. Even with the shift of most international traffic to Charles de Gaulle Airport, Orly remains the busiest French airport for domestic traffic and the second busiest French airport overall in passenger traffic, with 33,120,685 passengers in 2018. The airport is operated by Groupe ADP under the brand Paris Aéroport. Since February 2018, the CEO of the airport has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Tontons Flingueurs
''Les Tontons flingueurs'' ('' en, Crooks in Clover'', also known as ''Monsieur Gangster'', literally ''Gun-toting Uncles'') is a 1963 French-Italian-West German crime comedy film with French dialogue, directed by Georges Lautner. It is an adaptation of the Albert Simonin book ''Grisbi or not grisbi''. The film is the final installment in the Max le Menteur trilogy; it was preceded by ''Touchez pas au grisbi'' and '' Le cave se rebiffe''. The film was not popular with critics upon its first release in 1963, but was popular with the public. Its reputation has grown over the years to cult status and it is now a French television classic, with snatches of dialogue and names of characters (like the prostitute Lulu la Nantaise) becoming part of popular culture. Its DVD version, released in 2002, sold 250,000 copies. One of the most famous scenes is set in a kitchen where the gangsters try to make conversation while drinking a vile and strong liquor. Screenwriter Michel Audiard consi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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