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Touchez pas au grisbi ([tu.ʃe pɑ o ɡʁiz.bi], French for "Don't touch the loot"), released as Honour Among Thieves in the United Kingdom and Grisbi in the United States, is a 1954 French-Italian crime film based on a novel by Albert Simonin.
Touchez pas au grisbi: Directed by Jacques Becker. With Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll, Vittorio Sanipoli. An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.
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- Crime, Drama
- Jacques Becker
- 1960-02
Touchez pas au grisbi est un film français de Jacques Becker, sorti sur les écrans à Paris en mars 1954. Il s'agit d'une adaptation de Touchez pas au 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
At 50, Max the Liar has never possessed more wisdom about his profession of burglary. But he no longer cares to make the effort, and his dream is to salt away 96 kilos in gold bars that have been stolen at Orly Airport. Then he will retire.
Jan 17, 2005 · A lbert Simonin’s novel Touchez pas au grisbi is said to have had a revolutionary impact on French crime writing, and Jacques Becker’s film version had a similarly transformative effect on French crime films, yet film and novel bear little resemblance to each other.
Directed by. Jacques Becker. Produced by. Robert Dorfmann. Written by. Jacques Becker, Albert Simonin, Maurice Griffe. Featuring. Jean Gabin, René Dary, Paul Frankeur. Running time. 94 minutes. A haunting, witty and masterful film about honour and ageing, starring Jean Gabin.
