Un Homme Est Mort (1972)
Genre: Crime / Drama
Duration: 104 minuten
Alternative title: The Outside Man
Country:
France / Italy / United States
Directed by: Jacques Deray
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret
IMDb score:
6,5 (1.505)
Releasedate: 21 December 1972
Un Homme Est Mort plot
"If you kill the most powerful man in organized crime, they've got the rest of your life to get you."
A French hit man arrives to do a job in Los Angeles. Once there, he himself is followed by an American colleague.
Actors and actresses
Lucien Bellon
Nancy Robson
Lenny
Jackie Kovacs
Antoine
Alex
Mrs. Barnes
Eric
Anderson
Reviews & comments
wihu61
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- 909 messages
- 475 votes
I love those crime movies from the seventies. Both in France and in the US, classics were created during that time. But if I compare this to something like The French Connection (or Le cercle rouge) it is a bit of a weak affair: all the stylistic elements are there, but it doesn't work, not even with a few big names in the cast, most of whom have little input.
Trintignant mumbles his way through it in a quasi-cool way, and Scheider says nothing at all, and shoots pretty badly for a professional killer . The short action scenes are mediocre, and the how and why is kept a secret for (too) long. Given that everything, despite the beautiful pictures, eventually started to drag on a bit, I wasn't really waiting for the answer anymore.
No, just leave this work to the Americans themselves (then, but no longer).
Filmkriebel
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- 9555 messages
- 4432 votes
Lots of action and violence in this crime/action film. The least you can say is that it doesn't stop for a minute. This example of "American filmmaking" by a French director delivers a 70s film through and through. When Lucien kills a gangster boss in LA for money to pay off his gambling debts, he becomes a target. His travel passport is stolen and he gets a hitman after him, played icily by Roy Scheider. He also gets help from Nancy, a contact of his client. But Lucien gets the impression that something is fishy about the whole thing and then you can expect a twist. I wasn't bored for a moment and there is no lack of exciting scenes. You might expect Charles Bronson rather than Trintignant in such a film and Frankenheimer in the director's chair, but Deray gets the job done. The only comment is perhaps that it goes on just a bit too long. A discovery.
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