Le Samourai (Le samouraï) (1967)

8.2	Listal rating
8.1	IMDB rating

Directed by

Jean-Pierre Melville

Starring (View all)

Jef Costello

The Superintendant

Jane Lagrange

Valérie, la pianiste

Jacques Leroy

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Michel Boisrond

Wiener

Robert Favart

Barkeeper

Jean-Pierre Posier

Olivier Rey

Written by (View all)

Joan McLeod

novel The Ronin

Jean-Pierre Melville

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Le Samourai

7 months, 3 weeks ago at Sep 28 15:45

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The movies are filled with beautiful killers and brooding, haunted men struggling with their pasts and presents. But Alain Delon in Le Samourai puts practically all of them to shame. His performance is a master class in underplaying everything; he barely registers an emotion, keeping his cool poker face throughout the various twists and turns of the film.

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Hitman Jeff Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he's seen by witnesses. His efforts to provide himself with an alibi fail and more and more he gets driven into a corner.

Release date : 25 October 1967
UPC: 037429208526

France (20), 1960s (16), Hitman (10), 1967 (9), Crime (9), Italy (8), Drama (7), Thriller (7), Paris (6), Double Cross (6), Thief (6), Alibi (6), French (6), Assassin (5), Mystery (4), Car (3), 60's (3), Spies (3), Nightclub (2), Gambling (2)

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"I kept reading people's comments that this one as such a great movie and all and that the main lead plays his character amazingly. It is a clever movie, the lead is clever, the whole setting but it just didn't click with me. I mean I should have felt something for the main lead or about the other cast but I didn't. I was there to see the whole thing but just as a bystander and it was mostly ok ahan yeah hmmm. I don't think that should be the audience response, over all not a bad movie but it I "