The picture packs intrigue , suspense , violence , shootouts and an impressive final . Martin (Luis Peña) and Antoine (Navales) , two communists from Toulouse arrive in Spain to carry out destabilizing actions. In Barcelona they get in touch with an old comrade, Roman Campos (José Suarez), so that he can get them weapons and a fourth man. This one gets you convince Jorge Abad Mateu 'El Picas' (Carlos Otero) . The latter is a former robber who now works in a farmhouse or Masia , so that he collaborates with them and give them the machine guns that he has hidden. Martin has a plan to make a lot of money, as it happened a few years ago without any success . Thanks to Martin's plan, the four of them dedicate themselves to stealing and then dividing up the loot. But not everything will turn out as planned and disagreements are not long in appearing and being relentlessly persecuted by the police. At the end our starring sets out to exact a vengeance , but things go awry .
A crossover between the tradition of the best Barcelona Noir cinema of the postwar period and the French ¨Nouvelle Vague¨. The picture is developed with tension , suspense , emotion , and the exciting deeds are unfolded with absolute logic until the bloody final outcome . An effective, properly made and competently performed production that alrightly brings most of the characters of the classsic Noir Film and also contributing occasionally some novelties . A very realistic, hard film without concessions of any kind with which Francisco Perez makes his directorial debut. This noir film displays a violent and plot twisted with two outlaw men, Martín and Antoine, get in touch with Román in order to obtain machine guns and a fourth men for a robbery, in the Barcelona of the 60s, but things will change soon when some failures shake their plans . In an unusual way in the cinema of the time and despite many problems that the film had with the censorship at the time, in addition to Spanish the film speaks French and Catalan. Interpretations are uniformly fine with some notorious main and support actors , such as : José Suárez, Luis Peña , Carlos Otero, Gustavo Re , Marie Frances , María Asquerino, among others. This nice film belongs to the Spanish Noir Film whose main center was in Barcelona ; other great titles also located within a Barcelona production as "Distrito Quinto" (Julio Coll,1957), ¨Brigada criminal¨(1950) Ignacio F Iquino , ¨Un vaso de Whisky¨(Julio Coll) , ¨A Sangre Fria¨(1959) by Juan Bosch , ¨091 Policia al habla¨ by Jose Maria Forque and the best Noir resulted to be "Los Peces Rojos" .
This good and violent thriller with some spotlights contains splendid music by Federico Martínez Tudó and atmospheric the black/white photography by Francisco Marin . "A Tiro Limpio" (1963) was well directed by Francisco Pérez-Dolz . The film had a remake, with the same title sattred by Tony Cantó , Adolfo Fernandez , Diana Peñalver ,Francesc Orella and set in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, directed by Jesus Mora who made his debut with this film in 1996.
