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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... 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 ultimately leads to his doom. Based on D'Ashelbe's novel and remade in America as "Algiers." [More]
Starring: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Gabriel Gabrio, Marcel Dalio
Starring: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Gabriel Gabrio, Marcel Dalio
Director: Julien Duvivier
Director: Julien Duvivier
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Reviews for Pepe Le Moko
Director Julien Duvivier took the conventional mix of love and bullets and made it into dark poetry.
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.
Captures the vibrancy of colonial Northern Africa with intimate sensual detail
Mr. Gabin was no stranger to playing doomed men on film, and his Pépé is the grandest of the damned.
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.
An irresistibly entertaining drama of dreamy, doom-laden romantic fatalism, a vividly atmospheric film noir years before noir was cool.
A milestone of prewar French cinema and fun picture under any circumstances.
Beautifully 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.
You have to like a movie that was the true inspiration to that famous animated skunk Pépé le Pew.
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