Touchez Pas au Grisbi [Criterion] (DVD)

Jacques Becker

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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.

Starring: Rene Dary, Lino Ventura, Paul Frankeur, Jeanne Moreau
Format: DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of Discs: 1
Rating: Not Rated
Label: Criterion Collection
Release Date: 01/18/2005
Run Time: 83 minutes
Catalogue #: 271

Special Features

New, restored high-definition digital transfer
2002 Video Interview with actor Daniel Cauchy
Excerpt from an episode of the French television series Cineastes de notre temps dedicated to Jacques Becker, featuring screenwriter Maurice Griffe, Grisbi author Albert Simonin, actor Lino Ventuira, and Francois Truffaut
1972 interview excerpt with Lino Ventura
Clip from a 1978 interview with composer Jean Wiener
New essays by critics Philip Kemp and Geoffrey's O'Brien