Jean Gabin
Pépé le Moko
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Pépé le Moko is a notorious thief who has been hiding in the labyrinthine Casbah for nearly two years. Despite the police's awareness of his presence, they have been unable to capture him due to the community's support and intricate layout.
Pépé le Moko: Directed by Julien Duvivier. With Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre, Fernand Charpin. A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside.
Pépé le Moko est un film français de Julien Duvivier sorti en 1937, avec Jean Gabin et Mireille Balin, d'après le roman éponyme d'Henri La Barthe.
The notorious Pépé le moko (Jean Gabin, in a truly iconic performance) is a wanted man: women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him, and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn.
Pepe le Moko is a notorious thief, who, after his last great heist, escaped from France to Algeria. Since his escape, le Moko became a resident and leader of the immense Casbah , or "native quarter", of Algiers.
Pépé le Moko (Jean Gabin), one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave...
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May 10, 2011 · Pepe le Moko (1937) is one of the masterpieces of the poetic realist movement that flourished in French cinema of the 1930s, and a film that became an inspiration for American film noir. Like other poetic realist films, Pepe le Moko deals with characters living on the margins of society. Jean Gabin plays a criminal known as "Pepe le Moko ...
A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate. Holed up in the labyrinthine trap of narrow cobblestoned streets and dark dead-end alleys in the bustling Casbah quarter of Algiers, the charismatic leader and elegant Parisian gangster, Pépé le Moko, is starting to reach the end of his tether.
Directed by Julien Duvivier • 1937 • United States. Starring Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre. The notorious Pépé le moko (Jean Gabin, in a truly iconic performance) is a wanted man: women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him, and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn.
Jan 6, 2003 · To fully submerge into the antiquated, almost aboriginal mirage of Julien Duvivier’s Pépé le moko (1937), you cannot overlook its position as a cog in the dream-works of film history.
