In Venice, a French agent tries to recover printing plates, used to print fake currency, from an ex-Nazi who stole them during WW2.In Venice, a French agent tries to recover printing plates, used to print fake currency, from an ex-Nazi who stole them during WW2.In Venice, a French agent tries to recover printing plates, used to print fake currency, from an ex-Nazi who stole them during WW2.
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- TriviaThe score for this film was composed by the esteemed John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Listen to "The Golden Striker."
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This is not only a film with a good jazz score, and neither is it the rubbish that it is made out to be. Roger Vadim made some very good films, and this is one of them. Caught between a French cinema despised by the Nouvelle Vague he inadvertently made the first footprint of the ' new ' cinema by making ' Et Dieu Crea La Femme ' with Brigitte Bardot. It made Bardot into an icon praised no less than by Simone Beauvoir, and the film by its free wheeling and outdoor settings was something very new in a mostly studio bound French cinema. After this excellent film ( to me anyway ) he made ' Sait-On Jamais ' turned of course into the more audience attractive title of ' When the Devil Drives ' and it was duly given an adults only certificate in the UK. I have no idea if the censors of the time got their scissors out as I have only seen it in French and I have a good DVD of it brought out by Rene Chateau, so the complaints that it was not brought out on DVD are not valid. Viewers should search more and not depend only on the English and Americans to find it. The filming is excellent and so is Francoise Arnoul, almost as equal to the French as Bardot. Set in Venice it is a fine thriller and has no pretentions to be other than that. The cartoon which starts the film before any credits was something the Nouvelle Vague should have envied, and the film is full of innovative scenes. I have no liking in the main for Robert Hossein's films, but as an actor he had presence and Christian Marquand equally made fine films. One thing I am sure of ; both the USA and UK should have brought out more of Vadim's films and taken him more seriously.
- jromanbaker
- Feb 23, 2023
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- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
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