Acclaimed as one of the greatest French films of all time, Pepe Le Moko is a landmark gangster thriller from legendary director Julien Duvivier. Considered by Jean Renoir and Ingmar Bergman amongst others as a true poet of cinema, the international success of Pepe Le Moko led to an invitation from MGM to work in Hollywood in 1938, but it is his work in France for which Duvivier is best remembered. In the performance which made him a cinematic icon, Jean Gabin plays Pepe Le Moko, a notorious gangster hiding out from the police and his rivals in the Casbah Of Algiers. In the Labyrinth of the Casbah he is safe; until a Parisian playgirl tempts him out into the open... Available now for the first time on DVD, Pepe Le Moko is both a brilliant piece of poetic realism and a thrilling slice of early Noir. |
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