Le Cercle Rouge
No place to hide . . . nowhere to run . . .
7.6 / 10
140 minutes
1970-10-19
French
FR
Actors :
Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté, Yves Montand, François Périer, Paul Crauchet, André Ekyan, Paul Amiot, Pierre Collet, Jean-Pierre Posier, Yves Arcanel, René Berthier, Anna Douking, Jean-Marc Boris, Robert Favart
Description
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
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Reviews
CRCulver
6/23/2021, 3:58:11 PM
Jean-Pierre Meville's 1970 film <i>Le Cercle rouge</i> (The Red Circle) is a crime caper based on the interplay of several initially unacquainted individuals. As Melville's fake quote from the Buddha that serves as the intertitle goes, "When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever the diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the...
CinemaSerf
6/3/2023, 10:04:05 AM
Though it takes quite a while to get going, and I constantly wanted to rub that annoying moustache from the face of Alain Delon ("Corey") I really rather enjoyed this crime caper. Delon recruits the dapper ex-cop with a drink problem - "Jansen" (Yves Montand), and the recently escaped "Vogel" (Gian Maria Volontè) into his plan to rob an exclusive Parisian jewellers. Situated on the top floor of a ...