Summary
Former gangster and secret services operative, Paul Lamiani is now a
respected married man who owns a restaurant. One day, he is
contacted by the his former employers in the DST and asked to get in touch with
his friend Marcel, who is implicated in the theft of some highly
sensitive documents. Paul has no choice but to retrieve the
stolen documents, but his mission takes a nasty turn when Marcel is
murdered...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
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Credits
- Director: Maurice Labro
- Script: Michel Audiard, François Chavane, Frédéric Dard, Jean Redon, Claude Sautet
- Photo: Pierre Petit
- Music: Georges Van Parys
- Cast: Lino Ventura (Paul), Estella Blain (Nadine), Paul Frankeur (Raymond), François Chaumette (Paulan), Nadine Alari (Pierrette Lamiani), Eugene Deckers (Toni Luigi), Philippe Mareuil (Régis), Anne Valon, André Weber (Walter), Jess Hahn (Donald), Alfred Adam (Le colonel), Yves Arcanel, Jacqueline Caurat (La présentatrice), Gérard Darrieu, Guy Henry, Patrick Millow (Le fils de Paul), Roger Saget (Marcel)
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: 98 min; B&W
- Aka: The Beast Is Loose; The Tiger Attacks
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