Le Doulos (1962)

Directed by

Jean-Pierre Melville

Genre

crime film, neo-noir, thriller film, detective film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 310 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A career criminal is released from prison and drawn back into a complex web of betrayal and double crosses. The film follows his uneasy alliances with old associates and a police detective as loyalties shift and violence erupts.

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What happens

Le Doulos (French pronunciation: [lə dulos]) is a 1962 French crime film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, adapted from the novel of the same name by Pierre Lesou. It was released theatrically as The Finger Man in the English-speaking world, but all video and DVD releases have used the French title. Intertitles at the beginning of the film explain that the French title refers both to a kind of hat and to the slang term for a police informant. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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