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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7/10

Quite a standard movie and story but brought well to the screen by cast & crew.

Lets face it. The 'film-noir' period was already over its peak and as good as death already in 1965, when this movie was released. This movie is a late attempt to revive the film-noir genre, with some big names involved. They partly succeeded. The movie works quite well as a crime/thriller movie but it lacks the certain style, characters and subtle style of film-making to consider this movie a good attempt at the film-noir genre.

All of the classic ingredients are present here but everything doesn't always connect very well. Some of the story lines are underdeveloped and it often leaves more questions than answers. I still don't fully understand what the point was of the robbery/killing in the beginning of the movie. Some of the events in the movie feel silly but it luckily doesn't make the movie any less pleasant to watch. So even though everything in the movie is far from flawless it still is a good enough crime/thriller to watch.

The main plot line isn't anything too terribly exciting but it's told in a good way. Director Ralph Nelson brought the standard and thin story well to the screen and even manages to make the movie look exciting, thrilling and surprising.

The musical score by Lalo Schifrin is quite odd but its suits the movie very well and therefor I liked it.

The characters and cast are good and interesting. OK so Alain Delon might not be the best leading man but the supporting cast certainly compensates for this. Ann-Margret shows she is a great actress although she mainly only does some screaming and crying in this movie. It gets a bit too much after a while. Van Heflin and Jack Palance were also great and John Davis Chandler beautifully plays a ruthless villainous looking villain. He absolutely stole the show in most of the sequences he was present in.

A good enough crime/thriller that deserves to be seen.

7/10

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