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The Trump Card (French: Dernier atout) is a 1942 French crime film directed by Jacques Becker and starring Mireille Balin, Raymond Rouleau and Pierre Renoir. [1] The film marked Becker's full debut as a director, although he had briefly worked on Cristobal's Gold in 1940.
- Jean Alfaro
- 2 September 1942
- André Halley des Fontaines
The Trump Card: Directed by Jacques Becker. With Mireille Balin, Raymond Rouleau, Pierre Renoir, Noël Roquevert. A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country.
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- Crime, Drama
- Jacques Becker
- 1942-09-02
Closer to a comedy thriller than a straight crime film, and brightly lit for adventure rather than drama by cameraman Nicolas Hayer, 'Dernier Atout' stars Raymond Rouleau as a jaunty crack-shot detective who takes the place of American gangster Gaston Modot in a gang led by dastardly Pierre Renoir.
Dans un hôtel d'une ville imaginaire d'Amérique du Sud, un homme est abattu. On charge les deux élèves inspecteurs, Clarence et Montès, d'élucider cet assassinat afin de les départager d'un concours de tir, mais sans savoir que le défunt n'est autre que l'ennemi public n° 1 des États-Unis.
- Maurice Aubergé
- Jacques Becker
Dernier atout is lower in quality, understandably as it is his first, and pretty nonchalant while trying to be sly which puts an annoying gleam on it but also provides a reason to keep watching as the film ramps up in entertainment.
- Jacques Becker
Director. Maurice Aubergé. Writer. Louis Chavance. Writer. A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but they don't know that dead guy is the USA public enemy No.1.
An in-depth review of the film Dernier atout (1942) directed by Jacques Becker, featuring Mireille Balin, Raymond Rouleau, Pierre Renoir
