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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.
Jean Gabin is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max le Menteur in the Jacques Becker gem Touchez pas au grisbi (Hands Off the Loot!). Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend.
- Max le Menteur
An in-depth review of the film Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), aka Grisbi, directed by Jacques Becker, featuring Jean Gabin, Rene Dary, Dora Doll.
- Jacques Becker
Oct 28, 2019 · From the pages of Série Noire, the French postwar publisher of translated American crime novels and their hardboiled domestic counterparts, Albert Simonin’s 1953 thriller Touchez pas au grisbi brought the manicured, mannered, and miscreant denizens of Paris’s 18 th Arrondisement to the screen in director Jacques Becker’s ...
Jan 17, 2005 · Grisbi unfolds as a series of tableaus so vivid we scarcely notice how insignificant the story is: each scene has its own reality, its own fascination. New characters emerge without explanation, and past entanglements are never clarified.
French film director Jacques Becker establishes a mesmerising rhythm with Touchez pas au grisbi (aka Hands-off the loot); which emerged as the initial entry in a trio of films dubbed The Grisbi Trilogy, additionally comprising The Counterfeiters of Paris and Crooks in Clover.
Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), which translates to, roughly, “Don’t Touch the Loot,†was released in the U.K. as Honour Among Thieves and apparently in the U.S. as simply Grisbi. Gabin is Max, a high-level gangster who has just pulled off a daring heist of gold bars.
