He reveals he is sick of the criminal lifestyle and plans to retire with the money from the airport heist, and tells Riton to leave Josy to the younger Angelo. Max surmises Josy told Angelo, who planned to kidnap Max and Riton and beat the location of the gold out of them that night. Upstairs, the two friends eat a simple meal, during which Max tells Riton about Josy and Angelo and gets Riton to admit he had hinted to Josy about the big score to impress her. Max takes Riton to an apartment no one knows about and shows Riton that he has been storing the eight gold bars they stole during a recent heist at Orly Airport in the trunk of a car parked in the building's garage. He gets the drop on them and chases them away, after which he calls Riton and warns him not to go with Angelo, who has just asked Riton to do a job with him. On the way back to his apartment, Max notices he is being followed by two of Angelo's men in an ambulance. After the show, Max discovers Riton's girlfriend, Josy, making out with Angelo, another gangster, but he does not tell Riton. The group then goes to crime-boss Pierrot's nightclub, where the girls perform and Max gets Marco a job as a drug dealer working for Pierrot.

Max, a principled middle-aged Parisian gangster, has dinner at Madame Bouche's restaurant, a hangout for criminals, with his longtime-associate Riton, their much younger burlesque-dancer girlfriends, and Max's protege Marco.

The film is the first installment of the so-called 'Max le Menteur trilogy', which are all based on novels by Simonin, but feature different characters it was followed by Le cave se rebiffe and Les tontons flingueurs, both of which are more comedic than Grisbi. The film was screened in competition at the 1954 Venice Film Festival. It was directed by Jacques Becker and stars Jean Gabin, René Dary, Paul Frankeur, Lino Ventura, Jeanne Moreau, Dora Doll, and Marilyn Buferd. This film is virtually unknown today due to censorial hacking - a 1948 release removed all reference to the fact that Dietrich’s character is a prostitute, taking out 31 minutes from the film, and leaving something that doesn’t make entire sense.įans are recommended to The Musée Jean Gabin in his native town, Mériel.Touchez pas au grisbi (, French for 'Don't touch the loot'), released as Honour Among Thieves in the United Kingdom and Grisbi in the United States, is a 1954 French- Italian crime film based on a novel by Albert Simonin. In Martin Roumaganc (dir: Georges Lacombe) a prostitute played by Dietrich (as in Streetcar, her character's name is weirdly Blanche) falls for an inarticulate, rough-and-ready, Stanley Kowalski type - played by Gabin. To see them in action together, there is a real gem, called Martin Roumaganc (1946), which is a little like Streetcar Named Desire, and actually came out a year before Williams' Streetcar opened on Broadway.

Gabin had a fairly long romance with actress Marlene Dietrich, which has been described ( by Wikipedia at least) as ‘torrid’.

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