The Burglars (1971) Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif

Today's movie. 

A 1970s euro caper movie with the late greats Belmondo and Omar Sharif, famous for its car chase and a Belmondo jump down some earthworks. 

Set in Greece, with lots of sunshine, out of season, not that much action.

Jean-Paul Belmondo Rest In Peace

The great French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo died yesterday. 

As I have stated on this blog and elsewhere, I have enjoyed his movies for a long time.

And it just so happens that I watched Breathless for the first time a couple of weeks ago which was playing at my local cinema.

Obviously it's a great movie by the famed director Godard and one that was Belmondo's breakthrough and marked the proper beginning of his acting career.

It's one of the earliest, and maybe the best, movie in the French New Wave cinema.

I guess it's about how to live the last few days of your life with total abandon focusing what you do best, i.e. crime, on the part of the male protagonist, and a dose of love.

However, I am also a great and unashamed fan of Belmondo's commercial cop (or should I say flic) and thief (voyou ) movies.

And this is my personal favorite L'Alpagueur (aka The Hunter Will Get You).

 With a very effective Bruno Kremer and featuring a great score too.

And here is another one of a series of his commercial crime movies from the late 70s-early 80s, noted for Belmondo using a burst-fire mode Beretta 93R to a great effect.
 

Henry Silva is in it too.

 

RIP the great actor.

À bout de souffle (1960) - C'est vraiment dégueulasse

Watched this last night at the movies...



Obviously it's a great movie.

It's one of the earliest, and maybe the best, movie in the French New Wave cinema.

How to live the last few days of your life with total abandon to what you do best, i.e. crime, on the part of the male protagonist, and a dose of love.

Belmondo in L' Alpagueur -1976

My favorite Jean-Paul Belmondo movie where he plays Hunter, a kind of hard-boiled private detective operating outside the law, taking out criminals and getting paid handsomely for it by his clients from government intelligence and crime fighting agencies but now he has to confront France's most notorious bank robber and ruthless assassin L'Epervier aka flight attendant Gilbert convincingly played by Bruno Cremer.

L' Alpagueur -1976 aka Hunter Will Get You

Music by M. Colombier is also a favorite score.

Belmondo in Le Marginal, aka The Outsider, not as good, but uses a similar formula.




 Also noted for Belomondo's character using a burst-fire mode Beretta 93R.

HoroLex: БЕЛЬМОНДО - ЧАСТНЫЙ ДЕТЕКТИВ (L' Alpagueur -1976): Мой самый любимый фильм с Бельмондо.