Summary
Bastien is a drugs dealer, but he would prefer to give up his criminal
activities so that he can start a honest life with his girlfriend
Jacqueline. However, he agrees to take on one last mission.
For a large sum of money, he agrees to betray a gang led by Stan the
Armenian, to the profit of Hans, the head of a rival gang. The
drugs are usually placed into a football ball, but instead Hans puts a
bomb into the ball, a bomb that will explode at ten o’clock in the
evening. Unaware of this, Bastien accidentally switches the ball
with another one belonging to young children in an abandoned
playground. When he hears of this, Hans is furious and orders one
of his men to shoot Bastien. Meanwhile, a young boy does not know
that his life is in danger...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
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Credits
- Director: Gilles Grangier
- Script: Noël Calef (novel), Gilles Grangier, Pierre Véry
- Photo: Jacques Lemare
- Music: Jean Yatove
- Cast: Paul Meurisse (Commissaire-Divisionnaire Varzeilles), Jeanne Moreau (Jacqueline Tourieu), Serge Reggiani (Bastien Sassey), Simone Renant (Denise Giraucourt), Robert Porte (Détourbe), Fernand Sardou (M. Arpaillargues), Bernard La Jarrige (Le Crocq), Christian Fourcade (Jules), Frédéric Atger (Bernard), Bertrand Borie (Claude), Amy Colin (La concierge), Hélène Tossy (Mme Arpaillargues), Fanny Mauve (La dame du terrain vague), Claude Albers (Hélène), Marie-Claire Verlène (Thérèse), Henriette Monfraix (Suzanne), Louis Arbessier (Bailleul), Lucien Hubert (Truffier), Albert Dinan (Aldo), Pierre Jourdan (Marc Grancourt), Lucien Raimbourg (L’agent Gramier), Clément Harari (Adrien Osmets), Robert Lombard (Planioles), Charles Bouillaud (Remalart)
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: 86 min; B&W
- Aka: Not Delivered
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