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Bob le flambeur Bob the gambler
Title:
Bob le flambeur Bob the gambler
Author:
Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973.
Publication Information:
[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2002]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.).
Summary:
Bob the gambler and his friends learn that the Deauville Casino expects to pull in 800 million francs. On the night of the heist Bob plays the casino tables until the appointed time. Before the dawn breaks, some of the men and women will win, some will lose, and some will die.
General Note:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.

"Janus Films, Rialto Pictures, Studio Canal."

Includes special features: the original theatrical trailer, a 2002 interview with Daniel Cauchy, and an edited version of a 1961 radio interview of Jean-Pierre Melville by Gideon Bachmann.

Special features are in color.

Booklet in container includes a brief essay by Luc Sante and an English translation of a 1970 interview with Jean-Pierre Melville excerpted from Melville on Melville / Rui Nogueira.
Language:
French

English
Subject Term:
ISBN:
9780780025011
UPC:
037429165928
Format :
DVD