Police officer Antoine Delille is in charge of putting an end to the activities of a "kingpin", Jo Pinelli, trafficker, racketeer and pimp. He has three women working for him, including Eva and Jeannette, and is currently "conditioning" a charming, naive Orly employee, with whom he poses as an honorable businessman. Inspector Delille's plan is to arrest Jo for some crime and, while he's being held at the P.J., to delve into his other criminal activities and confound him.
Acting
Pierre Mondy's Delille — sweaty, desperate, impossible to root for.
Production
Authentic Paris locations that reek of cheap bars and bad decisions.
Director
Maurice Cloche
Pierre Mondy
Inspector Antoine Delille
Jacques Duby
Dominique
Jean-Pierre Bernard
Joseph Pinelli aka 'le Beau Jo'
Magali Noël
Eva Chiquois
Dominique Zardi
Crook friend of Vasco
Francis Blanche
Émile aka 'le Boxeur'
Janine Vila
Corinne Bellac
Claire Maurier
Jeannette Sorel
Jean Tissier
Father 'La Coquille'
Michel Barbey
Ange Tavalesco aka 'Vasco'
Jacques Monod
Divisional commissioner
Étienne Bierry
Inspector Le Gall
Daniel Ceccaldi
Inspector Belin
Bernard Lajarrige
Inspector Lenoir
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Maurice Cloche directed over 80 films but remains virtually unknown outside France; this was his attempt at policiers after years of religious epics and comedies.
Released the same year as 'Bande à part' but feels decades older — this is the grimy commercial cinema Godard and Truffaut were trying to kill.
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