Échec au porteur (1958)

Échec au porteur is a French thriller film first released in 1958, directed by Gilles Grangier.  The film is based on a novel by Noël Calef and stars Paul Meurisse, Jeanne Moreau, Serge Reggiani, Simone Renant and Robert Porte.  It has also been released under the title: Not Delivered.  Our overall rating for this film is: good.


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...
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