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Touchez Pas Au Grisbi

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Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (1953)

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Reviews Counted:22

Fresh:22

Rotten:0

Average Rating:8.3/10

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: Gabin, the quintessential tough-guy, and Moreau, resplendent as always, pair up for this heist film, one of the best of the French gangster films of the 1950s. In it, Gabin is an aging thief who... Gabin, the quintessential tough-guy, and Moreau, resplendent as always, pair up for this heist film, one of the best of the French gangster films of the 1950s. In it, Gabin is an aging thief who has already pulled off what he thinks was his last big job, scoring enough gold to last him through his twilight years. Unfortunately, one of his partners' girlfriends has taken up with the boss of a rival gang and he quickly learns about the big score. Soon, Max's best friend is kidnapped and held for ransom. The blackmail scheme soon turns into a battle of wits between Max and the rival gang that includes a number of double-crosses and, inevitably, leads to tragic finish. [More]

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura

Director: Jacques Becker

Director: Jacques Becker
Screenwriter: Jacques Becker, Maurice Griffe
Producer: Robert Dorfmann
Composer: Jean Wiener

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This model French gangster picture set the rules for the great sequence of underworld movies from Jean-Pierre Melville that followed.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Time Out
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This portrait of Parisian gangsters, bound by loyalty and a rejection of outsiders, set the style for many that followed.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
05/24/03
Channel 4 Film
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It's Gabin's show all the way, anticipating the melancholy, atmospheric gangster pictures of Jean-Pierre Melville that started to appear a couple years later.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/23/08
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

The film is often confusing, especially during the first half, but Gabin and Ventura are well cast as hoods and Moreau is as appealing as ever as an underworld temptress.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
01/23/08
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Jacques Becker, who did such a fine job in painting the turn-of-the-century apache milieu in Casque D'Or, brings the same care and psychological overtones to a film on the modern racketeer element.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
01/23/08
Variety Staff
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Variety
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The acting is consistently good. M. Gabin is, of course, an old hand at bland toughness. Rene Dary and Paul Frankeur, as two colleagues; Jeanne Moreau and Dora Doll, as two unlucky ladies, and Lino Ventura and Denise Clair... are sordidly convincing.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
03/25/06
Howard Thompson
Howard Thompson
New York Times
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No review available.

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03/09/06
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
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No review available.

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07/23/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

It's those little character moments, balanced between charm and pathos, that make this film such a winner.

Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | comment Comment
03/05/04
Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

As ripely Parisian as old (1954) Montmartre.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
02/06/04
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

There's not a trace of vanity in [Gabin's] performance.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
02/06/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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A diverting curiosity.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
01/29/04
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Every filmmaker from Francois Truffaut to Quentin Tarantino owes something of a debt to Becker's black-and-white boldness.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
01/16/04
Janice Page
Janice Page
Boston Globe

If it isn't the best trip you've ever taken to the dark Montmartre of the 1950s, it's nevertheless a real French noir. Irresistible, in other words.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
12/12/03
Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy
Oregonian

Fifty years later, its trademark jukebox tune (a melancholy harmonica riff) still causes tingles, and its tough, laid-back elegance still seduces.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
11/28/03
Moira MacDonald
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times

Its crisp black-and-white photography is truly seductive and its stoic celebration of honor among thieves make it one of the definitive French films noir of the '50s.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
11/28/03
William Arnold
William Arnold
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

[Becker establishes] day-to-day life patterns that these characters leave behind like sludgy trails. He loads Grisbi with seedy nightclubs, after-hours restaurants, and bachelor apartments where the only on-hand food consists of stale biscuits.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
09/29/03
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

A classic policier.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
09/26/03
Edward Guthmann
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle

A wonderful treasure from the seemingly inexhaustible cornucopia of crackling French crime dramas.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
09/04/03
Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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A meditation on what we are left with when life has let us down, played out in the haunted eyes of Jean Gabin.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
09/04/03
Jon Strickland
Jon Strickland
L.A. Weekly
 
 
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