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[Machine Translation] Jean Gabin's masterpiece! Jacques Bekker (The Crown of Flesh) directed this 1954 downtown Paris film. Based on the novel by Albert Simonin, the film was adapted by Simonin, Maurice Griff (The Design of Happiness), and Bekker. The cinematography was by Pierre Montazel (Shadow of Delusion), and the music was by Jean Vignet (Under the Paris Sky: The Seine Flows). The cast includes Jean Gabin (The Moment of Love), Rene Daly (The Wanted), Jeanne Moreau (A Capricious Girl in Paris), Dora Dol and Lino Borini (The Mistress Manon). --In the back streets of Paris, Maks (Jean Gabin) and Lytton (Rene Dary) are friendly playmates. They spot a 50-million-franc gold bar being brought to the Orly airfield and successfully rob it. They kept the gold hidden until the situation had cooled off, intending to convert it into cash at some point. One day, however, Lytton inadvertently tells Josie ( Jeanne Moreau ), a woman at a nightclub, about the gold. Josie was the mistress of Angelo, a drug trafficker, so it became known that Maks and Litton were the gold robbers. Angelo immediately tried to catch them and find out where the gold was hidden, but Maks discovered Angelo's plan by looking into his movements. The next morning, Maks stopped Litton and went to visit his uncle, an organ dealer, to take care of the gold nuggets. In his absence, Lytton went to Jozi in retaliation, and was severely beaten and kidnapped by Angelo's gang. Maks desperately searched for Riton, but was unable to locate him. Then he receives a phone call from Angelo, who offers to give him the litton in exchange for 50 million francs. Maks decides to save the lithon, after a long hesitation over whether it is money or friendship. Maks loaded the gold into his car and drove to the designated location. Angelo accepted the gold in exchange for Riton and tried to shoot them dead on the spot, and a fierce firefight broke out. Angelo's car caught fire and he lost his life. The gold is back in Mux's hands, but his partner Lytton is seriously wounded, and the police force is closing in. Maks was once again torn between money and friendship, but in the end, friendship won out and he fled with Liton, abandoning the gold nuggets. However, Liton, who was seriously wounded, finally died.

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ジャン・ギャバン珠玉の名作! 『肉体の冠』のジャック・ベッケルが一九五四年に監督したパリ下町映画。アルベール・シモナンの小説から、シモナン、『幸福の設計』のモーリス・グリッフ、ベッケルの三人が脚色した。撮影は『妄執の影』のピエール・モンタゼル、音楽は『巴里の空の下セーヌは流れる』のジャン・ヴィーネ。『愛情の瞬間』のジャン・ギャバン、『お尋ね者』のルネ・ダリー、『巴里の気まぐれ娘』のジャンヌ・モロー、『情婦マノン』のドラ・ドル、リノ・ボリニらが出演する。 ――パリの裏町にマクス (ジャン・ギャバン)とリトン (ルネ・ダリー)の、仲のよい遊び人が住んでいた。二人はオルリ飛行場に運びこまれる五千万フランの金塊に目をつけその強奪に成功した。そしてほとぼりのさめるまで隠しておき、いずれ現金にかえるつもりだった。ところが、リトンがある日ナイトクラブの女ジョジ (ジャンヌ・モロー)にうっかり金塊のことを口走ってしまった。ジョジは麻薬密売のボス、アンジェロの情婦だったのでマクスとリトンが金塊強奪犯人であることが筒抜けになってしまった。アンジェロは早速二人を捕えて金塊の隠し場所をつき止めようとしたが、マクスは逆にアンジェロの動向を探って彼の企みを知った。翌朝、マクスはリトンを足止めして臓品故買商の伯父を訪れ、金塊の処置をつけようとした。その留守中、リトンはジョジへ報復に行き、アンジェロ一味にひどい目にあわされて拉致された。マクスは必死になってリトンの行方を探すが判らない。そこヘアンジェロから、五千万フランと引換えにリトンを渡すという電話がかかって来た。金か友情か迷った挙句、マクスはリトンを救う決心をした。マクスは金塊を車に積みこんで指定の場所に赴いた。リトンと引換えに金塊を受けとったアンジェロはその場で二人を射殺しようとし、烈しい車上の射撃戦が始まった。そしてアンジェロの車は火を発して一命を失った。金塊はふたたびマクスの手に戻ったが、相棒のリトンは重傷、警官隊は刻々迫って来る。金か友情か、またしても迷ったマクスは、結局友情にひかれリトンを連れ、金塊を捨てて逃げのびた。しかし重傷のリトンはついに絶命してしまった。