Quand la femme s'en mêle

I prefered Jean Servais for Tony Le Stephanois role in RIFIFI, adapted from an Auguste Le Breton's novel. This one is also a crime film about the underworld, and adapted from a Jean Meckert - Amila - book. But Amila was not Le Breton, who knew perfectly the underworld in Paris. Amila - Meckert- was specialized in social dramas involving simple folks fighting against powerful and nasty governments and companies that finally smashed them. Amila was not a specialist of the underworld. That said his novel which this film is inspired was cute, the characters interesting. Concerning that, the movie here is faithful to the book. But it remains forgettable, and Yves Alllegret had not the skills of Jules Dassin for RIFIFI, which was tough, rough, brutal, unlike this one, a smooth crime film compared to RIFIFI. But Alain Delon in a supporting character is always unavoidable. Alain Delon ten years before LE SAMOURAI and in a character whose sidekick is no one else than Jean Lefebvre.... I can't believe it.