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Though he had forced his way into French film culture by working entirely outside his country's studio system in the 1940s and 1950s, by the 1960s director Jean-Pierre Melville was working with larger budgets and well-known actors such as Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of Le Doulos. An extension of Melville's fascination with the existential milieu of American gangster films, Le Doulos presents New Wave icon Belmondo as Silien, a man newly released from prison and by reputation a professional informer. A figure, then, of possible duplicity and ambiguity, Silien is the perfect Melvillian hero, difficult to read but propelled by
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Manufacturer: The Criterion Collection
Release date: 7 October 2008
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0715515032827 UPC: 715515032827
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Release date: 7 October 2008
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0715515032827 UPC: 715515032827
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