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Any Number Can Win (French: Mélodie en sous-sol, lit. 'Melody in the Basement') is a 1963 French crime drama film directed by Henri Verneuil. The film is based on the novel The Big Grab by Zekial Marko .
Any Number Can Win: Directed by Henri Verneuil. With Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval, Viviane Romance. A career con artist reunites with his wife but has already planned his next move: one daring last heist that will set him up for life.
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- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Henri Verneuil
- 1963-03-19
Charles, an aging Frenchman who has served a 5-year prison term for attempted burglary, ignores the pleas of his wife and makes elaborate plans for robbing the gambling casino at Cannes.
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
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- Henri Verneuil
Released Oct 8, 1963 1h 50m Mystery & Thriller. List. A famous thief plans his greatest robbery, the bank of a Cannes gambling casino. Content collapsed. Critics Reviews. View All (3) Critics...
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- Henri Verneuil
- Mystery & Thriller
- Jean Gabin
Any Number Can Win. Directed by Henri Verneuil • 1963 • France, Italy. Starring Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Viviane Romance. This ice-cool crime caper bridges two generations of French cinema by bringing together longtime national screen icon Jean Gabin with hotshot rising star Alain Delon.
High style and smooth jazz on the Cote d’Azur means in Henri Verneuil’s Mélodie en sous-sol (US: Any Number Can Win), we’ve left the world of gritty American noir for good; Jean Gabin’s weathered, middle-aged face contrasts sharply with Alain Delon’s youth and good looks as we watch one French superstar pass the torch to another (to ...
