Set during World War II, and stuck on the beaches near Dunkirk, Julien Maillat tries to join England by boat with the English Army, but cannot succeed. Read More »
Tag Archives: Henri Verneuil
Anyone Can Win (1963) Henri Verneuil, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval
Charles (Jean Gabin), a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife’s plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. Read More »
The Serpent (1973) Henri Verneuil, Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde
Vlassov (Yul Brynner) is a Soviet spy. In France, Vlassov defects. He is whisked to the U.S.A., where Allan Davies (Henry Fonda) takes over the case. Read More »
Le corps de mon ennemi / Body of My Enemy (1976) Henri Verneuil, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bernard Blier, Marie-France Pisier, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Read More »
Les morfalous (1984) Henri Verneuil, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Villeret, Michel Constantin, Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, War
April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. Read More »
Un singe en hiver (1962) Henri Verneuil, Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon, Comedy, Drama
A young man, Gabriel Fouquet, arrives in a coastal town in Normandy to visit his daughter, who is staying in a boarding school. He ends up lodging in a guesthouse run by the aged Albert Quentin and his wife Suzanne. To forget his troubles, Gabriel hits the bottle, not realising that the teetotal Albert was once a heavy drinker. Twenty years ago, the latter pledged never to touch alcohol again if he and his wife survived the war. Through his friendship with Gabriel, Albert becomes nostalgic about his past, recalling his time as a sailor on an expedition to China. To drown their sorrows, the two men embark on a drinking binge which quickly gets out of hand…
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Cent mille dollars au soleil / Greed in the Sun (1964) Henri Verneuil, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Reginald Kernan, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Rocco and his female accomplice, Angèle hijack a truck from a trucking company in the Saharan desert. The head of the trucking company, Castigliano hires Rocco’s friend, Hervé and a newly employed German, Hans to go after him and bring back the valuable goods. After the two run into some trouble Castigliano sends a second truck driven by Mitch and Khenouche.
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I… comme Icare / I as in Icarus (1979) Henri Verneuil, Yves Montand, Michel Albertini, Roland Amstutz, Crime, Drama, Mystery
After the recently re-elected President of a fictitious state has been assassinated, one of the members of the investigation committee refuses to sign the final report and is given the task of investigating once more. In the course of his search he finds evidence that casts serious doubt on the committee’s “lone-gunman” theory… A very bold film that basically told the “JFK” story thinly disguised as having taken place not in the US.
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