Une balle dans le canon (1958)
Also known as A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958 · Feature film · 69 min · dir. Michel Deville, Charles Gérard
- Crime
- Drama
Synopsis
Pierre Varneck and Roger Hanin own a money-losing night club. In walks Don Ziegler, who wants his money - he had given it to them to smuggle out of Indo-China. They try to sell the club back, but the real owner has a proposition: take part in a robbery from a gold smuggler, and they'll split the loot.Michel Deville's first feature is a taut crime drama, full of double-crosses, pretty girls, flashy cars and an air of desperation that never lets up for the two leads. With a lively jazz score by Raymond Bernard, some nice camerawork by Claude Lecomte, the seventh minutes that this movie takes flashes by. Hazel Scott shows up as a piano-playing chanteuse and La Bardot's sister Mijanou is the golf-playing girlfriend of Haneck, named 'Brigitte'... and the daughter of the man they rob. Even the author of the policier this is based on, Albert Simonin has a short role.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Michel Deville, Charles Gérard
- Running time
- 69 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Feature Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Une balle dans le canon (1958)
Cast & crew
- Michel Deville, Charles Gérard Director
Pierre Vaneck
Mijanou Bardot
Paul Frankeur