Because it falls in with the undulating rhythm of the life of its heroes, for whom a fatal fight and a quiet night have almost equal importance, the picture never manages to reach the peaks of satisfying Hollywood melodrama.
Overview
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.
Director and cast
- Jacques Deray Director
- Jean-Paul Belmondo as Commissaire Philippe Jordan
- Henry Silva as Sauveur Meccacci
- Carlos Sotto Mayor as Livia Maria Dolores
- Pierre Vernier as Inspecteur Rojinski
- Maurice Barrier as Tonton
- Claude Brosset as Antonio Baldi
- Tchéky Karyo as Francis Pierron
- Jacques Maury as Maître Cappa
- Gabriel Cattand as Contrôleur Dumas
- Roger Dumas as Inspecteur Simon
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Well acted and crafted but highly conventional.
The film is unremitting in its morbid sentimentality, running its teenage characters through a masochistic gamut of beatings, killings, burnings, and suicides.
A deeply strange film that gives '60s hoodlums the personalities of Care Bears and places them under constant attack from preppies in pastel sweaters.
[Coppola's] revisions to the film, which include a new, improved soundtrack, invest it with grandeur worthy of both its characters and his own ambitions.
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