Director Julien Duvivier took the conventional mix of love and bullets and made it into dark poetry.
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07/30/03
Pepe Le Moko (1937)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:29
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: A notorious gangster hides out in the Casbah for safety and soon realizes he's a prisoner, unable to ever leave its confines. He becomes obsessed with a beautiful outsider, and this attachment... [More]
Starring: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Gabriel Gabrio, Marcel Dalio
Director: Julien Duvivier
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Reviews for Pepe Le Moko
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12/30/06
If you've never seen the film, you may be pleasantly surprised by the unexpected complexity of the intrigues and the lyrical force of the feelings.
03/13/02
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03/05/04
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04/30/03
Captures the vibrancy of colonial Northern Africa with intimate sensual detail
04/03/03
Excitingly filmed with North African footage mixed with superb sets.
07/26/02
This is the closest Duvivier came to Renoir, which is no mean feat.
01/01/00
One of the most purely enjoyable films ever made.
02/28/02
Top CriticNo review available.
07/14/05
Mr. Gabin was no stranger to playing doomed men on film, and his Pépé is the grandest of the damned.
05/23/02
Top CriticOne of the great international hits of classic French cinema.
02/26/02
Top Criticthe film that made consummate French actor Jean Gabin a star
01/26/03
It's not just an important film; it's also great entertainment, a compelling screen romance -- and one of the best places to see hunky Jean Gabin at the height of his career.
10/21/02
An irresistibly entertaining drama of dreamy, doom-laden romantic fatalism, a vividly atmospheric film noir years before noir was cool.
08/19/02
A milestone of prewar French cinema and fun picture under any circumstances.
03/01/02
Top CriticBeautifully crafted, movingly acted, still involving and entertaining, this is just the kind of film people are talking about when they say they don't make them like this anymore.
04/19/02
Top CriticYou have to like a movie that was the true inspiration to that famous animated skunk Pépé le Pew.
01/16/03
Film noir as we know (and love) it is just around the corner from here.
02/09/06
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