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The Hole. (1960 film) The Hole ( French: Le Trou) is a 1960 French crime film directed by Jacques Becker. It is an adaptation of José Giovanni 's 1957 book The Break. It was called The Night Watch when first released in the United States, but is released under its French title today. The film is based on a true event concerning five prison ...
Feb 14, 1997 · The Hole: Directed by Jacques Becker. With Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy, Raymond Meunier. Distrust and uncertainty arise when four long-term inmates cautiously induct a new prisoner into their elaborate prison-break scheme.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Jacques Becker
- 1997-02-14
Synopsis. Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way ...
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- Durieu
- Jacques Becker
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Marguerite Renoir. Editing. Geneviève Vaury. In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Based on the novel by José Giovanni, Jacques Becker’s Le trou (The Hole) balances lyrical humanism with a tense, unshakable air of imminent danger.
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Summaries. Distrust and uncertainty arise when four long-term inmates cautiously induct a new prisoner into their elaborate prison-break scheme. Just as four cell-mates are about to launch their elaborate escape from a tiny cell, a detainee from a cell-block under repair is transferred in. The four all face certain conviction and long sentences.
The Hole is a 1960 French crime film directed by Jacques Becker. It is an adaptation of José Giovanni's 1957 book The Break. It was called The Night Watch when first released in the United States, but is released under its French title today. The film is based on a true event concerning five prison inmates in La Santé Prison in France in 1947. Becker, who died just weeks after shooting had ...
Claude Gaspard (as Mark Michel) Jean-Paul Coquelin. ... Le lieutenant Grinval (as J. Paul Coquelin) André Bervil. ... Le directeur de la prison. Eddy Rasimi. ...
