The Counterfeiters of Paris

Original title: Le cave se rebiffe

1961
1h 38m

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7.0/10

1.4K

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Comedy Crime

"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Pa... Read all"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should ... Read all"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having coun... Read all

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

1.4K

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
The scenes taking place in South America were in fact shot in Normandy because Jean Gabin refused to go outside France.

Goofs
Dust is seen taking off the dirt race track when the horses are filmed from the front, revealing a vehicle transporting a camera.

Quotes
Charles Lepicard: Entre-nous Dab, une supposition, je dis bien une supposition, que j'ai un graveur, du papier et que j'imprime pour un milliard de bifton, en admettant, je dis bien que c'est toujours une supposition, en admettant que l'on soit cinq sur l'affaire, cela rapporterait net combien à chacun?
Ferdinand Maréchal dit 'Le Dabe': 20 ans de placard, les bénéfices cela se divise, la réclusion, cela s'additionne!
Charles Lepicard: Between us, Dab, an assumption, I mean an assumption, that I have an engraver, paper and that I print for a billion bifton, admitting, I say it is always a supposition, admitting if we are five on the case, how much would it bring to everyone?
Ferdinand Maréchal dit 'Le Dabe': 20 years of jail, the profits are divided, the sentences add up!

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7/10

Average old style gangster movie with marvelous dialogs

The movie in itself is nothing special : a gangster movie, directed in a classic and worn-out way, with no specific directing whatsoever. And with a slow pace - in French, we will say a movie "à la papa", meaning a cinema made with too much comfort. But we have some of the best Audiard's dialog and one-liners and that changes everything! Gabin, Blier, and the rest of the cast, pretty decent, helps as well, but without the chiseled lines from Audiard, it would have just been average.