Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 150 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
- prison
- sniper
- police brutality
- robbery
- paris
- france
- cop-killer
- gangster
- marseille
- france
- prison escape
- heist
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Lino Ventura
Gustave "Gu" Minda
Paul Meurisse
Commissaire Blot
Raymond Pellegrin
Paul Ricci
Christine Fabréga
Manouche
- Marcel Bozzuffi — Jo Ricci
- Paul Frankeur — Commissaire Fardiano
- Denis Manuel — Antoine Ripa
- Jean Négroni — Inspector
- Michel Constantin — Alban
- Pierre Zimmer — Orloff
- Pierre Grasset — Pascal Leonetti
- Jacques Léonard — Henri Tourneur
- Raymond Loyer — Jacques the Lawyer
- Régis Outin — Paul's Source
- Albert Michel — Marcel le Stéphanois
- Directed
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Written
- Jean-Pierre Melville, José Giovanni
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 206 ratings
- Studio
- Les Productions Montaigne
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