Jean-Pierre Melville
Bertrand Tavernier , director of Sunday in the Country and 'Round Midnight introduces two influential thrillers.
Bob le flambeur
(Bob the Gambler) starring
Roger Duchesne Isabelle Corey
Bob the Gambler has retired from crime and lives very pleasantly on his ill-gotten gains.
But an unlucky streak forces him to plan one last coup.
Jean-Pierre Melville's stylish homage to the American gangster movies he so admired is set in the Parisian demimonde; a world with its own code of honour exemplified by the gentlemanly Bob.
Screenplay by AUGUSTE LE BRETON and JEAN PIERRE MELVILLE
Directed by JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE
(A French film with English subtitles. First showing on British television. Black and white) and at 12.00
Johnny O'Clock starring
Dick Powell
Lee J. Cobb
Evelyn Keyes
This taut thriller, featuring Dick Powell in one of his early tough-guy roles, was the directorial debut of Robert Rossen , a film-maker much admired by Melville and a key influence on his films.
A suave gambler discovers to his cost that a crooked policeman is more dangerous than a professional criminal.
Produced by EDWARD D NEALIS Written and directed by ROBERT ROSSEN
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