Gas-Oil (1955)

Original title

Gas-oil

Directed by

Gilles Grangier

Genre

crime film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A tough truck driver in rural France gets mixed up in a robbery and must deal with the aftermath. The film follows his efforts to protect his job and his relationships while under pressure from the law and local criminals.

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What happens

Gas-Oil is a 1955 French crime drama film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Gaby Basset and Ginette Leclerc. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location at a variety of places. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. It was one of a number of films portraying tough truck drivers made in the wake of the success of the 1953 film The Wages of Fear. It was the first of many films in which Gabin appeared in written by his fellow Parisian Michel Audiard. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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