Summary
Paoli, Clavet, Jabeke and Valoti run a gambling club which is, in
truth, a cover for their illicit activities. Repellini, a
notorious Marseilles gangster, offers to sell them a large quantity of
drugs, which they can sell for twice the price he is
asking. The offer is too good to turn down and the plan is
that Moreau, the fifth member of the gang, will travel from Paris to
Marseilles by train with a suitcase full of cash to buy the
drugs. However, Jabeke wants the money for
himself, so he takes the same train, kills Moreu and returns to Paris
with the suitcase. A roller coaster of suspicion, betrayal and
death quickly ensures...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
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Credits
- Director: Jacques Deray
- Script: Jacques Deray, José Giovanni, Alain Reynaud-Fourton, Claude Sautet
- Photo: Claude Renoir
- Music: Michel Magne
- Cast: Michel Auclair (Clavet), Claude Dauphin (Valoti), José Giovanni (Moreau), Charles Vanel (Paoli), Jean Rochefort (Jabeke), Michèle Mercier (Madeleine Clavet), Daniela Rocca (Hélène Valoti)
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: 115 min; B&W
- Aka: Symphony for a Massacre; The Corrupt; The Mystifiers
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