Two Men in Manhattan (1959)

Original title

Deux hommes dans Manhattan

Directed by

Jean-Pierre Melville

Genre

drama film, noir fiction

Country

France

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 73 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two French journalists in New York City hunt for a missing United Nations diplomat. They navigate the city's nightlife and criminal underbelly as they try to find him before it's too late.

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What happens

Two Men in Manhattan (French: Deux hommes dans Manhattan) is a 1959 French film noir written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It stars Melville and Pierre Grasset as two French journalists in New York City who are searching for a missing United Nations diplomat. Although Melville occasionally played bit parts in the films of other directors (most notably the role of Parvulesco in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film Breathless), Two Men in Manhattan was his only starring role, and the only time he acted in one of his own films, other than providing the off-screen narration for Bob le flambeur (1956). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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