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Pepe le Moko [Criterion Collection]
Director: Julien Duvivier Cast: Jean Gabin , Mireille Balin , Line Noro , Gabriel Gabrio , Louis Gridoux
DVD
(Black & White)
$29.99
- Release Date: 03/21/2010
- UPC: 0037429173329
- Original Release: 1937
- Rating: NR
- Source: CRITERION
- Presentation: [B&W]
- Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
- Language: English
- Runtime: 5640
- Sales rank: 17,861
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Chez P?p?
"L'Origine de P?p?"
Location, Location, Location
The Many Faces of P?p?
"Remembering Jean Gabin"
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Duvivier Interview
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Theatrical Trailer
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"Julien Duvivier's classic 1937 film Pepe le Moco gets the treatment it so richly deserves from Criterion. The film is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1. The French soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. English subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a 1963 interview with the director, clips from a television tribute to actor Jean Gabin, excerpts from a British Film Institute study of the film, a featurette on how the film affected popular French culture, a comparison of the film with the American version of the same story (Algiers), the original theatrical trailer, and an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson. This is the kind of release that has made Criterion one of the premiere names in home video."
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- Pepe le Moko [Criterion…
- Director: Jean Gabin
This Algiers-set thriller truly belongs to its eponymous antihero, who is played with resilient gallows charm by hard-eyed, tight-lipped French actor Jean Gabin. Pepé is an expatriate thief who, cornered in the Casbah, yearns for the air of Paris. All the while, he tries to keep his gang tethered. He leaves one woman only to tumble madly for a ravishing tourist (Mireille Balin), who draws him, à la Dillinger, into a fatal hail of bullets. As hard to escape as the femme fatale here is the hell-on-earth explored by director Julien Duvivier's snaking camera. Duvivier’s Casbah is a death pit chock-full of latticed shadows, smoky intrigues, and gritty wit. As the quintessence of that fatalistic form known as Poetic Realism, Pepé le Moko is an ominous masterwork that crucially paved the way for American film noir. The Criterion Collection DVD features a newly restored print plus a wide variety of interviews and other background information on Gabin and the film.