''Anyone Can Kill Me'' (French: ''Tous peuvent me tuer'', Italian: ''Tutti possono uccidermi'') is a 1957 French-Italian
crime
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drama film
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directed by
Henri Decoin
Henri Decoin (18 March 1890 – 4 July 1969) was a French film director and screenwriter, who directed more than 50 films between 1933 and 1964. He was also a swimmer who won the national title in 1911 and held the national record in the 500 ...
and starring
François Périer
François Périer (born François Pillu; 10 November 1919 – 29 June 2002), was a French actor renowned for his expressiveness and diversity of roles.
He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996, with notable excursion into ...
Anouk Aimée
Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus (born 27 April 1932), known professionally as Anouk Aimée () or Anouk, is a French film actress, who has appeared in 70 films since 1947, having begun her film career at age 14. In her early years, she studi ...
.Bock & Bergfelder p.496 It was shot at the
Epinay Studios
The Epinay Studios are film production studios located in Epinay in northern Paris. It was a complex with two distinct and separate structures. The earliest was built in 1902 by Eclair Film. A second studio was controlled by the French subsidia ...
in
Paris
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. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Raymond Gabutti
Raymond Gabutti (1908-1985) was a French art director.Turk p.439
Selected filmography
* ''Three Waltzes'' (1938)
* '' Storm Over Asia'' (1938)
* ''Crossroads'' (1938)
* '' Children of Paradise'' (1945)
* ''The Seventh Door'' (1947)
*'' Judicial E ...
.
Synopsis
A gang of criminals conduct a
robbery
Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by use of fear. According to common law, robbery is defined as taking the property of another, with the intent to permanently deprive the perso ...
and hide the stolen
jewels
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in the base of
statue
A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals are carved or cast in a durable material such as wood, metal or stone. Typical statues are life-sized or close to life-size; a sculpture t ...
. They are sentenced to a short stretch in prison and plan to recover the proceeds of the robbery once their sentence is finished. However, one by one, the members of the gang meet sudden and unexpected deaths.
Cast
*
François Périer
François Périer (born François Pillu; 10 November 1919 – 29 June 2002), was a French actor renowned for his expressiveness and diversity of roles.
He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996, with notable excursion into ...
as Paul - le directeur de la prison
* Peter van Eyck as Cyril Gad
*
Anouk Aimée
Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus (born 27 April 1932), known professionally as Anouk Aimée () or Anouk, is a French film actress, who has appeared in 70 films since 1947, having begun her film career at age 14. In her early years, she studi ...
as Isabelle
*
Darío Moreno
David Arugete (3 April 1921 – 1 December 1968), commonly known under his stage name Darío Moreno, was a Turkish-Jewish polyglot singer, an accomplished composer, lyricist, and guitarist. He attained fame and made a remarkable career centred ...
as Luigi Falconi
*
Eleonora Rossi Drago
Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmira Omiccioli, (23 September 1925 – 2 December 2007) was an Italian film actress. She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy, and had the leading role in ''Le amiche''. She appeared in ''Un maledetto imbro ...
as Odette - la femme du directeur
* Pierre Mondy as Émile Chanu
*
André Versini
André Versini (1923–1966) was a French film actor and screenwriter.Hayward p.404 He also directed a couple of films.
Selected filmography
* ''Thus Finishes the Night'' (1949)
* ''No Pity for Women'' (1950)
* '' Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman' ...
as Antoine 'Tony' Lefébure
*
Jean-Pierre Marielle
Jean-Pierre Marielle (12 April 1932 – 24 April 2019) was a French actor. He appeared in more than a hundred films in which he played very diverse roles, from a banal citizen ('' Les Galettes de Pont-Aven''), to a World War II hero (''Les Milles ...
as Jérôme
*
Jean-Claude Brialy
Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director.
Early life
Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland ...
as Un inspecteur de police
* Mario David as Paulo - un détenu
*
Albert Michel
Albert Michel (1909–1981) was a French stage, film and television actor.Paietta p.40
Selected filmography
* ''Je chante'' (1938) - Un laitier (uncredited)
* ''Ne bougez plus'' (1941) - Clanpinet
* ''Chèque au porteur'' (1941)
* ''Fièvres'' ( ...
as Le gardien-brigadier Bricart
* Olivier Darrieux as Un gardien
*
Louis Viret Louis may refer to:
* Louis (coin)
* Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name
* Louis (surname)
* Louis (singer), Serbian singer
* HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy
See also
Derived or associated terms
* Lewis (d ...
as Le patron du bistrot qui chante la romance
* André Jocelyn as Le banquier
* Pierre-Louis as Gaston Berlioux - un complice de Gad
*
Pierre Dudan
Pierre Dudan (1916–1984) was a Russian-born Swiss actor and singer. He was born in Moscow to a Russian mother and a Swiss father. He married four times.
Selected filmography
* '' Night Warning'' (1946)
* '' The Fugitive'' (1947)
* ''The Lyons ...
as Fernand
*
Francis Blanche
François Jean Blanche, known as "Francis Blanche" (20 July 1921 – 6 July 1974) was a French actor, singer, humorist and author. He was a very popular figure on stage, radio and in films, during the 1950s and 1960s.
Early life
Blanche was ...
as La Bonbonne
*
Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi (; 15 February 1916 – 18 October 1995) was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, Franco Fabrizi started his career as a model and an actor in fotoromanzi. Fabrizi also starred on several rev ...
as Karl Herman
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
* Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959''. Gremese Editore, 1991.