An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
Acting
Gabin, Delon, Ventura—three titans in delicious stalemate.
Direction
Verneuil's surgical precision makes 121 minutes feel like 90.
Score
Ennio Morricone's main theme slaps harder than it should.
Director
Henri Verneuil
Jean Gabin
Vittorio Manalese
Alain Delon
Roger Startet
Lino Ventura
Commissaire Le Goff
Irina Demick
Jeanne Manalese, épouse d'Aldo
Amedeo Nazzari
Tony Nicosia
Yves Lefebvre
Aldo Manalese, fils aîné de Vittorio
Philippe Baronnet
Luigi, gendre de Vittorio, mari de Teresa
Marc Porel
Sergio Manalese, fils cadet de Vittorio
Karen Blanguernon
Teresa, fille de Vittorio
Elisa Cegani
Maria Manalese, l'épouse de Vittorio
Jacques Duby
Raymond Robel, faussaire toxicomane
Edward Meeks
Le commandant de bord
Raoul Delfosse
Léoni
Sally Nesbitt
Mme Evans
André Pousse
G. Malik, photographe d'art et faussaire de papiers à ses heures
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