An exceptionally entertaining film set in Marseilles during the 1920s. Two local trouble-makers (Alain Delon & Jean Paul Belmondo) team up to try and usurp the local city bosses and run into one roadblock after another. At turns comic and violent, director Jacques Deray and scriptwriters Claude Sautet and Jean-Claude Carrière create a film heavy on atmosphere and full of very colorful characters. Delon & Belmondo have a lot of chemistry and the supporting cast is populated with the likes of Michel Bouquet, Catherine Rouvel and André Bollet (excellent as a particularly nasty crime lord). The sunny cinematography is by Jean-Jacques Tarbès and the bouncy music score is by none other than Claude Bolling.
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