Seniors

Touchez pas au grisbi

+ intro by Professor Ginette Vincendeau, Emeritus Professor in Film Studies, King’s College London

Hands Off the Loot

Jacques Becker’s stylish gangster adaptation re-launched the screen career of charismatic star Jean Gabin.

  • Director

    Jacques Becker

  • With

    Jean Gabin, René Dary, Jeanne Moreau

  • France-Italy 1954. 94min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

  • English subtitles

This inspired adaptation of Albert Simonin’s série noire novel was a game changer in 1950s French cinema. Its success relaunched the career of Gabin and redefined the French gangster movie. In Becker’s humanist vision, rather than hold up banks the gangsters meet friends, drink champagne and watch dancers (including a superb Moreau) in Montmartre nightclubs.

Free for the over-60s (booking by phone or in person only), otherwise normal matinee price.

See the Seniors’ Paid Matinee of The Extraordinary Miss Flower + intro on Monday 19 May.