Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 132 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Italy
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system – yet their escape is anything but assured.
- prison
- escape
- black and white
- urination
- warden
- manhole
- toothbrush
- tunnel
- hourglass
- neo-noir
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Michel Constantin
Geo Cassine
Jean Keraudy
Roland Darban
Philippe Leroy
Manu Borelli
Raymond Meunier
Vossellin / Monseigneur
- Marc Michel — Claude Gaspard
- Jean-Paul Coquelin — Le lieutenant Grinval
- André Bervil — Le directeur de la prison
- Eddy Rasimi — Bouboule
- Philippe Dumat — Un gardien
- Albert Augier — Un gardien
- Jean Becker — Un gardien
- Raymond Bour — Un gardien
- Lucien Camiret — Maurice Gaillardbois - Le détenu qui refuse de s'alimenter
- Durieu
- Gérard Hernandez — Le détenu à l'infirmerie
- Directed
- Jacques Becker
- Written
- Jean Aurel, Jacques Becker, José Giovanni
Production
- Rating
- 8.2 / 10 · 597 ratings
- Studio
- Filmsonor, Play Art, Titanus
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
