Pépé le Moko

Dir. Julien Duvivier, 1937

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Sun 25 March 2007 // 17:30 / Cinema

Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill ticketPepe Le Moko might be why Film Noir got its French genre title, and conversely it was a kind of homage to American gangster flicks. Hanging out in the Casbah area of Algiers, Gabin plays a Machiavellian game with a detective keeping his eyes on the criminal. But is the beautiful dame Gabin has a crush on worth risking his freedom for?