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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.
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.
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.
Directed by Jacques Becker. It Bristles With Violence! Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy.
Overview. Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy.
Touchez pas au grisbi is the film that rehabilitated Jean Gabin after a period of decline and allowed him to reinvent his screen persona. Gone forever was the Gabin of the pre-WWII époque, the romantic working class hero with matinee idol good looks and an aura of tragic vulnerability.
