In this movie adapted from a José Giovanni novel and also directed by him, Paul Meurisse plays a gangster and Marcel Bozzuffi the police commissioner Blot in charge to nail him. They both played together nine years earlier in Le Deuxième Souffle, also adapted from a José Giovanni novel but this time directed by Jean-Pierre Melville; and in this latest feature Pal Meurisse played commissioner Blot character and Bozzuffi a hoodlum.
Italian censorship visa # 67746 delivered on 8 January 1976.