Jacques Becker's Touchez Pas au Grisbi occupies a significant part in French cinema history.
Max (Jean Gabin, La Grande Illusion) and Riton (René Dary) are two
ageing gangsters who manage to pull off their final heist, a spectacular
gold bullion robbery at Orly airport. All is well until Max's former
girlfriend Josy (Jeanne Moreau, Jules et Jim) tips off a rival gangster,
Angelo (Lino Ventura). The latter kidnaps Ritton and threatens to kill
him unless Max hands over the spoils from his robbery...
Helping
to birth the French policier, a European transposition of the fantastic
American gangster films of the 1940s, Touchez Pas au Grisbi exerted a
huge influence on subsequent directors such as Jean-Pierre Melville.
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