Truck drivers camaraderie

Author: dbdumonteil
6 July 2006

Another film which shows how Gilles Grangier's career in the fifties was unfairly neglected Perhaps the Gabin/Moreau pairing does not always work well ,in spite of the actors' talent She could be his daughter and the fact she is a schoolteacher does not help.As the character says " I prefer tea with milk;and I do not go much for eggs and sausages" .

All that remains rings true: the atmosphere ,on the roads where rain keeps falling down or in dark rooms where Ginette Leclerc (who used to portray a bitch as no other French actress could)plays the tearful widow' s part ,is sticky and dirty.It is also a good depiction of the world of truck drivers and their loyal camaraderie.The ending predates "Duel" by twenty years.

(mwoui...il y a bien une histouère de poids lourds dans DUEL...à part ça je ne vois pas trop l'rapport...je me serai bien passé de mettre ce texte,mais il n'y avait RIEN d'autre...et sur DVD Classik ils n'ont pas jugé ce film assez bien pour eux...seul  "125 RUE MONTMARTRE" a trouvé grâce à leurs oeillères ULTRA sélectives)