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Jean Gabin as Max, known as Max "le Menteur" ("the liar"), a Parisian criminal. René Dary as Henri Ducros, known as "Riton" (a diminutive form of "Henri"), Max's best friend and accomplice. Dora Doll as Lola, a dancer who is seeing Max. Paul Frankeur as Pierrot, a night club owner and underworld boss.
Feb 1, 2004 · Max is played by Jean Gabin, named "the actor of the century" in a French poll, in Jacques Becker's "Touchez Pas au Grisbi," a 1954 French crime film that uncannily points the way toward Jean-Pierre Melville's great "Bob Le Flambeur" the following year.
Touchez pas au grisbi: Directed by Jacques Becker. With Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll, Vittorio Sanipoli. An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.
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- Crime, Drama
- Jacques Becker
- 1960-02
Jacques Becker’s 1954 heist thriller Touchez pas au grisbi was the comeback he needed, and it propelled him into a successful second act, which lasted until his death in 1976. Jean Gabin is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max le Menteur in the Jacques Becker gem Touchez pas au grisbi (Hands Off the Loot!).
- Max le Menteur
Cast: Jean Gabin (Max dit Max le Menteur), René Dary (Henri Ducros dit Riton), Dora Doll (Lola), Vittorio Sanipoli (Ramon), Marilyn Buferd (Betty), Gaby Basset (Marinette), Paul Barge (Eugène), Alain Bouvette (Le chauffeur de taxi), Daniel Cauchy (Fifi), Denise Clair (Madame Bouche), Angelo Dessy (Bastien), Lucilla Solivani (Nana), Michel ...
- Jacques Becker
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Nov 25, 2014 · Touchez pas au grisbi is the story of a gangster’s compulsion to commit one more heist before retiring to a life of bubbly and well-proportioned broads. Played by Jean Gabin, Max summarises his character’s frame-of-mind in no vague terms: “I was fed up with all our bullshit years ago. I want to retire,” he tells his right-hand man.
No film noir performance captures “world weary” better than Jean Gabin’s in Jacques Becker’s Touchez pas au grisbi, a nontraditional gangster film that brilliantly capitalizes on Gabin’s age (50 years old) and legend as France’s tough anti-hero ( Port of Shadows, 1938; Le jour se leve, 1939) to bring to life Max, an aging criminal ...
