Crooks reckon
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Crooks reckon |
| Original title | La Métamorphose des cloportes |
| Country of production | France , Italy |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pierre Granier-Deferre |
| script | Albert Simonin |
| production |
Bertrand Javal Paul Javal Mario Argentieri Edward C. Leggenie |
| music | Jimmy Smith |
| camera | Nicolas Hayer |
| cut | Jean Ravel |
| occupation | |
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| synchronization | |
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Georges Chamarat : Clancul | |
Crooks reckon (original title: La Métamorphose des cloportes ) is a gangster film by director Pierre Granier-Deferre from 1965 based on the eponymous template by Alphonse Boudard . The main role was cast with Lino Ventura .
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The ex-boxer and professional art thief Alphonse Maréchal is a fixture in the Parisian underworld. For this reason he is hired by the three petty crooks Edmond, Arthur and "Rotfuchs" for a big coup, as they lack the change for the necessary equipment. Alphonse takes part in the project, but the action does not go as planned. Alphonse is the only one caught by the police and consequently goes to prison for five years, even though his three accomplices were the real masterminds. Meanwhile, they ransack Alphonses apartment and ultimately forget him. Alphonse is released early, however, and from then on begins a relentless campaign of revenge against his former partner.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films judged: “Straightforward and technically solidly staged gangster film from the French school with a questionable emphasis on vigilante justice. Lino Ventura plays his parade role of the lonely avenger in a mythically stylized underworld. "
Prisma said: “France's cinema icon Lino Ventura once more as a tough gangster who embarks on a relentless campaign of revenge. Director Pierre Granier-Deferre, who got to know Ventura and Charles Aznavour as assistant director during the filming of the war film " Taxi to Tobruk ", shot this tough ripper based on the novel by Alphonse Boudard [...]. "
Cinema sums it up: "The routinely staged gangster drama by Pierre Granier-Deferre [...] shines with an ironic closing punch and a grandiose Lino Ventura that stays cool to the bitter end."
Web links
- Crooks settle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Crooks settle accounts in the online film database
- Crooks settle accounts in the German synchronous file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crooks settle accounts. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Prisma.de crooks settle accounts
- ↑ Cinema.de crooks settle accounts