Category: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Drama
Release Year: 1964
Country: France
Runtime: 97
Rating: 4.3 (0)
Languages: French, English
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Sound: Mono
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Writing by: Jean-Luc Godard – writer
Dolores Hitchens – novel "Fools Gold"

Produced by: Giancarlo Canavesio – executive producer
Fabrizio Chiesa – associate producer
James Magnum Cook – associate producer
Nat Dinga – producer
Cher Helina – executive producer
Robert Kandle – executive producer
Toby Osborne – associate producer
Jeremy Platt – associate producer
Bizhan M. Tong – associate producer
Sol Tryon – associate producer

Cast: Anna Karina – Odile
Danièle Girard – English Teacher
Louisa Colpeyn – Madame Victoria
Chantal Darget – Arthurs Aunt
Sami Frey – Franz
Claude Brasseur – Arthur
Georges Staquet – Le légionnaire
Ernest Menzer – Arthurs Uncle
Jean-Claude Rémoleux – Lélève buveur dalcool
Michel Delahaye – Le portier
Jean-Luc Godard – Le narrateur

Music: Michel Legrand
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Plot Outline: Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.
Plot: A triangle: Franz, Arthur, and Odile. Franz, a young man with Alain Delon good looks, has met Odile in an English class. She lives in Joinville with wealthy benefactors and has mentioned to Franz that Mr. Stolz keeps a pile of 10,000 franc notes unlocked in his room. Franz tells his friend Arthur, a swarthy guy whose shady uncle is pressing him for money. Arthur and Franz, who mimic American movie tough guys, case Odiles house, pressure her to assist them with a burglary, and make passes at her as well. Shes alternately compliant and distressed. Will they pull off the heist?

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
For the last time (?) on the screen Music by Michel Legrand

Goofs: We know about 3 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Capt Gregg appears next to Lucy on the train and scoffs at Fairleys motivations. The scenery going past on Greggs side of the car is full of buildings, and billboards, right up close to the train tracks. When the focus is on Lucy, well see open fields, trees in the distance, farmland. This goes back and forth several times throughout the scene.

Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• The “minute of silence” lasts 36 seconds.
• The principle actors rehearsed for the famous dance sequence in nightclubs and bars in Paris Latin District.
• The story Franz refers to in the caf? scene, about something being best hidden in the most obvious place, is “The Purloined Letter” by Edgar Allen Poe.