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Un flic
Directed by
Jean-Pierre Melville
Produced by
Robert Dorfmann
Written by
Jean-Pierre Melville
Starring
Alain Delon Catherine Deneuve Richard Crenna
Music by
Michel Colombier
Cinematography
Walter Wottitz
Edited by
Patricia Nény
Release date
October 1972 (France)
98 min.
Country
France / Italy
Language
French
Box office
$8,831,458[1] 1,464,806 admissions (France)[2]
Un flic (English: A Cop, also known as Dirty Money) is a 1972 French film, the last directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It stars Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve and Richard Crenna.
Delon had previously worked with Melville on Le Samourai and Le Cercle Rouge playing the role of a criminal. In Un Flic Delon's role is reversed. He plays the cop, Édouard Coleman, this time in pursuit of Simon, a notorious Paris thief, who is very hard to pin down.
Motto[edit]
'The only feelings mankind has ever inspired in policemen are those of indifference and derision...' (Eugène-François Vidocq)
Plot[edit]
After a raid on a seaside bank in which a cashier is killed, four Paris gangsters flee with only part of the loot and with one of the men, Marc, fatally wounded. They put him in a private clinic and disperse. Their leader Simon owns a night club which is visited regularly by the police detective Coleman, to keep an eye on Simon and to pick up any information he can. Coleman also hopes to see the beautiful Cathy, who is Simon's mistress but spends occasional afternoons with Coleman in a hotel room. Fearing that the police will investigate Marc's gunshot wound, Simon sends Cathy into the clinic dressed as a nurse to give the dying man an air embolism.
Simon's next project is to steal a large quantity of heroin being transported out of France by a rival gang on the night express from Paris to Lisbon. From a helicopter he is lowered onto the speeding train in the empty countryside south of Bordeaux, knocks out the courier with chloroform, and is successfully winched up with the loot. An informer told Coleman that the operation was planned and catching Louis, another member of Simon's gang, Coleman gets him to give up the names of his accomplices.
After setting a tap on Simon's telephone, Coleman goes to the club and obliquely warns Simon that the police will be coming for him. Simon immediately telephones the fourth member of the gang, Paul, to warn him. Tracing the call, Coleman races to Paul's home, to find him shooting himself to avoid arrest. Simon then rings Cathy to come in her car and pick him up. As Simon emerges onto an empty street carrying an attaché case full of heroin, Coleman draws a gun and challenges him. As Simon seems to be reaching inside his coat for a gun, Coleman shoots him dead while Cathy watches helplessly from the getaway car. However, when Coleman inspects Simon's body, it is revealed that he had no gun, leading Coleman to think it was suicide. Coleman then is called away on another case, leaving a pensive Cathy alone. The film ends with a long shot on Coleman's face as he drives away.
Cast and crew[edit]
Alain Delon as Commissaire Edouard Coleman
Richard Crenna as Simon
Catherine Deneuve as Cathy
Riccardo Cucciolla as Paul Weber
Michael Conrad as Louis Costa
Paul Crauchet as Morand
Simone Valère as Paul's wife
André Pousse as Marc Albouis
Jean Desailly as Distinguished gentleman who was robbed of a statue
Valérie Wilson as Gaby
Henri Marteau as Police officer instructor of shooting
The crew included Sophie Tati (editing department) and Pierre Tati (second assistant director), the son and daughter of Jacques Tati.
References[edit]
^[1]
^Box Office information for film at Box Office Story
External links[edit]
Un flic on IMDb
Un flic at Rotten Tomatoes
A Cop at AllMovie
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