Bob le flambeur (1956)

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Roger Duchesne

Bob Montagné

Isabelle Corey

Anne
(as Isabel Corey)

Daniel Cauchy

Paolo

Guy Decomble

Le commissaire Ledru

André Garet

Roger

Gérard Buhr

Marc

Claude Cerval

Jean

Colette Fleury

Suzanne

René Havard

L'inspecteur Morin

Simone Paris

Yvonne

Howard Vernon

McKimmie

Henry Allaume

Un gangster
(as Henri Allaume)

Germaine Licht

Céleste Régnier
(as Germaine Amiel)

Yvette Amirante

La copine d'Anne

Dominique Antoine

Jannick Arvel

La deuxième fille du bar
(as Yannick Arvel)

Annick Bertrand

La première fille du bar

Duilio Carmine

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Anecdotes
Filmed over a painstaking period of two years, such was Jean-Pierre Melville's attention to detail. Daniel Cauchy, who plays Paolo, found time to make four other films in that period.

Gaffes
McKimmie demonstrates the four-dial combination-lock for the gang by turning all four dials before opening and closing it. But when Roger practices his safe-cracking technique on it, he misses the upper-right dial and instead works the lower-right dial a second time (after sandpapering his fingertips).

Citations
[subtitled version]
Bob Montagné: I was born here. It was not so dirty then. And I left to conquer the world. I was fourteen when I left my mother.
Anne: Did you go far?
Bob Montagné: Yes... a mile away.
Anne: And your father?
Bob Montagné: I use my mother's name.
Anne: She was unlucky with you both.
Bob Montagné: I returned ten years later, early one morning. I saw an old woman on her knees, scrubbing away, as she always had. That's how I recognized her. I left without a word. Then I sent her a postal order each month. One month it was sent back. She had stopped scrubbing.

Connexions
Edited into Journal D'un Malfrat (2017)

It just doesn't get much better than this. Visually, this is one of the most stunning and sumptuous feasts your eyes will ever experience. From the early-morning streets of Paris to apartments, nightclubs and bars, Melville captures a moment for all eternity. It doesn't hurt either that the acting is great and the leading lady is beautiful. Simply stated, this is one of the most enjoyable movie experiences one can have.

If I wanted to get all analytical, I might write about the way Melville has taken the conventions of the American gangster movie and humanized them by populating his movie with sympathetic, emotionally-rich characters. But what really matters, in the end, is that this movie is enormously fun and should not be missed.