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Réalisation : Jean-Pierre Melville
Scénario original : Jean-Pierre Melville
Adaptation : Jean-Pierre Melville et
Auguste Le Breton
Dialogues : Auguste Le Breton
Directeur de la photographie : Henri Decae
Assistant-réalisateur : François Gir,
Yves-André Hubert et Leo Fortel
Ingénieurs du son : Jean Carrère et
Pierre Philippenko
Musique : Eddie Barclay et Jo Boyer
Décors : Claude Bouxin
Montage : Monique Bonnot
Script : Jacqueline Parey
Société de production O.G.C. -
Organisation générale cinématographique (Paris)
Société de production Cyme Productions
Société de production Play Art
Société de production Protis Films (Marseille)
Directeur de production Florence Melville
Distributeur d'origine Mondial Films (Paris)
Date de sortie : France : 24 août 1956 (Paris)
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Trivia
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Considered a precursor to the French New Wave films that start in 1959
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Jean-Luc Godard's favorite Melville movie. Often claimed it to be the height of French films inspired by American noir.
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Jean-Pierre Melville auditioned Alain Delon for the character of Paulo. He rejected him for fear he would steal the show.
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Was a huge influence on the film Le transporteur. The criminal and cop relation was directly influenced from this film.
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Jean Cocteau did an uncredited rewrite of the script at one point for Jean-Pierre Melville. Most of the script was rejected because it focused too much Bob and Paulo's relationship rather then Melville's original intentions.
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Stanley Kubrick once said in an interview he gave up doing "Crime Films" because Jean-Pierre Melville did the greatest with Bob le flambeur and Jacques Becker did the second best with Touchez pas au grisbi. He later directed Orange mécanique however stating he never considered it a "crime film", but a socio-political film.
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Bob drives a stylish 1955 Plymouth Belvedere convertible.
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