Noble foundry worker François (Jean Gabin) shoots and kills weirdo circus dog-trainer Valentin (Jules Berry) and barricades himself in the attic. Armed police swarm up the stairs. Dissolving ...

The film opens with a caption, one imposed by anxious producers, fearing that audiences would be baffled. It is a caption that sets up the concept of flashback: a man has taken a life; now he is ...

Of all the memorable films starring French icon Jean Gabin, including “Grand Illusion,” “Pepe le Moko” and “La Bete Humaine,” none has been harder to see in its original version, or more richly ...

Cinestudio in Hartford will be showing a classic of 1930s French poetic realism, a movie that escaped unscathed from two very powerful enemies. “Le Jour se Leve” stars Jean Gabin as a criminal who ...

Together with the remarkable Les Enfants du Paradis, Le Jour Se Lève (now re-released in a splendid new print) remains one of the great achievements of pre-war French cinema. And Jean Gabin’s ...

A kind of Scorsese-De Niro-Schrader of French ‘30s cinema, director Marcel Carné, actor Jean Gabin and screenwriter Jacques Prevert followed the classic Quai Des Brumes with the equally brilliant Le ...

It’s one thing to watch sturdy, dexterously charming Jean Gabin as a working-class joe who doesn’t mind dangerous manual labor, figuring that’s his lot in life. But to see him as a man undone by his ...

Francois, a sympathetic factory worker, kills Valentin with a gun. He locked himself in his furnished room and starts remembering how he was led to murder. He met once Francoise, a young fleurist, and ...

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