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Andy Seven from Los Angeles, CA United States
Excellent French noir from legendary director Julien Duvivier about a safecracker (Robert Hossein) on the lam from big city Paris to a dead-end highway rest stop. The plot takes a page from The Postman Always Rings Twice with enough twists and turns to keep things exciting. Also starring Jean Sorel (Belle De Jour, She Killed In Ecstasy).
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Terrific French noir from 1963
August 19, 2022
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Anonymous Person from San Francisco, CA United States
Terrific noir from Julien Duvivier (Pepe Le Moko, Panique). Two guys try to rob an apartment but things go south. One (Robert Hossein) is shot; he recovers, but receives a twenty-year jail term. The other (Jean Sorel, the dull husband in Belle du Jour) escapes, but remains an outlaw, wanted for his role in the robbery. Then, after one year, Hossein escapes from prison.
Then the film become a sort of version of The Postman Always Rings Twice, though improved in some ways: the characters are more fleshed out, especially the husband (George Wilson). Both Hossein and Wilson are basically good guys, and they become good friends, which ratchets up the drama when Catherine Rouvel steps into the scene. And there are several other colorful miscreants involved in various ways. Chair de Poule is more humanistic, less nihilistic, than Postman. But the film is tough, brutal: characters say things, and feel things, that they couldn't have in Hollywood at the time. Good stuff.
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5 stars
February 17, 2022
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MARGARET ROBERTS from WHEATON, IL United States
5 stars
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Great
March 30, 2021
Reviewer:
Russell Berry from Staten Island, NY United States
Great print. Fast shipping.
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Late Julien Duvivier movie
July 18, 2018
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Robert Wallace from Mississauga, ON Canada
One of the last movies by director Julien Duvivier... As another reviewer has noted, the movie is in the Postman-Rings-Twice vein, only better than the Lana Turner/ John Garfield film... Great atmosphere of fatalism and doom... Solid acting and terrific ending.
Excellent French Noir 
Terrific French noir from 1963