Touchez pas au grisbi
Directed by Jacques Becker • 1954 • France
Starring Jean Gabin, René Dary, Paul Frankeur
Jean Gabin is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max le Menteur in the Jacques Becker gem TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI (“Hands Off the Loot”). Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton (René Dary), Max’s hapless partner and best friend, lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy (Jeanne Moreau), Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. A touchstone of the gangster-film genre, TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI is also pure Becker—understated, elegant, evocative.
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Touchez pas au grisbi
Directed by Jacques Becker • 1954 • France
Starring Jean Gabin, René Dary, Paul FrankeurJean Gabin is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max le Menteur in the Jacques Becker gem TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI (“Hands Off the Loot”). Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forwar...
Extras
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Lino Ventura on TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI
The following interview with actor Lino Ventura originally appeared on the May 1, 1972, episode of the French television series “Pour le cinema.” The piece was directed by Pierre Mignot.
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Jean Wiener on TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI
In the following excerpt from “Hommage à Jean Gabin,” composer Jean Wiener briefly discusses his collaboration with Jacques Becker and his appraoch to TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI. Directed by Solange Peter, originally aired on French television in February 1978.
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Daniel Cauchy on TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI
Daniel Cauchy, ‘Fifi’ in TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI, acted in many French films of the period, including Jean-Pierre Melville’s BOB LE FLAMBEUR. In this interview, he discusses becoming and actor and the experience of working on GRISBI. Lenny Borger spoke with him at his Paris apartment in January 2002.
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TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI on “Cinéastes de notre temps”
In 1967, seven years after Jacques Becker’s death, the renowned French television series “Cinéastes de notre temps” dedicated an episode to the director, in which friends and collaborators discussed what it was like to work with him. Among the participants were screenwriter Maurice Griffe, “Touch...
