Lucky Jo (1964)

Lucky Jo is a French crime film first released in 1964, directed by Michel Deville.  The film is based on a novel by Pierre Lesou and stars Eddie Constantine, Pierre Brasseur, Georges Wilson, Christiane Minazzoli and Jean-Pierre Darras.  Our overall rating for this film is: good.


Lucky Jo is a crook for whom nothing ever seems to go right.  He is an amiable sort of guy, always means to do good, but somehow the gods are never on his side – as his gang discovers when he wrecks their criminal exploits.  After a spell in jail, Lucky Jo is surprised to find than none of his former accomplices want anything to do with him.   He manages to track down his friend Simon and persuades him to lend him his car.  But the Lucky Jo curse strikes again!  The car is stolen and used in a hold-up by another crook, with the result that Simon is set to become the victim of another miscarriage of justice...

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