Les tueurs de San Francisco

Titre original : Once a Thief

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Ann-Margret, Alain Delon, and Van Heflin in Les tueurs de San Francisco (1965)

Un ancien détenu, Eddie Pedak, est revenu à la vie normale. Il veut rompre avec son passé de cambrioleur, mais l'inspecteur Vido qu'il avait blessé veut se venger.Un ancien détenu, Eddie Pedak, est revenu à la vie normale. Il veut rompre avec son passé de cambrioleur, mais l'inspecteur Vido qu'il avait blessé veut se venger.Un ancien détenu, Eddie Pedak, est revenu à la vie normale. Il veut rompre avec son passé de cambrioleur, mais l'inspecteur Vido qu'il avait blessé veut se venger.

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6,5/10

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Prix
- 1 victoire et 1 nomination au total

Anecdotes
First production to use the new, more sensitive Eastman 4-X film, which eliminated the need for a lot of expensive lighting equipment, especially in nighttime scenes.

Gaffes
Eddie (Alain Delon) is supposedly Italian (from Trieste) but fails to disguise his French accent.

Citations
Walter Pedak: Brothers never stop owing brothers!

Connexions
Featured in The Background Beat (1965)

Bandes originales
Once A Thief
Written by Lalo Schifrin & Dorcas Cochran
Performed by Irene Reid

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6/10

Atmospheric crime-melodrama with hip, slangy dialogue...

French heartthrob Alain Delon made his US leading man debut in this adaptation of Zekial Marko's novel "Scratch a Thief" about an ex-thief in San Francisco trying to stay out of trouble but fingered for the murder of a Chinese storekeeper by the police sergeant (Van Heflin) who hates him. Meanwhile, the thief's shady older brother (Jack Palance) is in town, needing the kid's help in pulling off a job. Ordinary crime plot given amusingly jazzy, frenetic direction by Ralph Nelson, who sets the scene with a flashy nightclub drum solo that is crazy-cool. Screenwriter Marko really lays on the '60s-era jive talk, some of it mind-boggling, while Nelson's quasi-European handling gives the picture an arresting look in vivid black-and-white. Some of the interesting supporting characters include a fey platinum-blond punk (years ahead of his time), plus Ann-Margret as Delon's put-upon wife. The talky lulls are given a boost by the slangy dialogue, and the location shooting in San Francisco is a big asset. **1/2 from ****