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Le Gang (1976)
Director: Jacques Deray
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Old-fashioned, simple-minded stuff, with a bewigged Delon leading the notorious but effortlessly elusive 'front-wheel-drive gang' in a not too serious succession of hold-ups in postwar France. Deray periodically clobbers the audience with second-hand chunks of morality, but for the most part is content to move the action along with a minimum of violence and the occasional pastoral interlude evocative of a simpler age when crooks - however psychopathic - all had hearts of gold and faithful molls. The gendarmes, we are told, are busy purging their ranks of collaborators; it falls, therefore, to a jeweller's comely wife to despatch our hero (his demise coming as no surprise, since the movie is one long flashback).Author: JPy
Cast & crew
Director: Jacques Deray
Producer: Henri Jaquillard
Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Barrier, Roland Bertin, Adalberto Maria Merli, Xavier Depraz, Raymond Bussières, Nicole Calfan, Laura Betti full cast
Genre(s): Gangsters
Duration: 103 mins
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