Du rififi à Paname (1966)

• Director
  • Denys de La Patellière
• Writers
  • Auguste Le Breton(novel)
  • Denys de La Patellière(scenario and adaptation)
  • Alphonse Boudard(dialogue)
• Stars
  • Jean Gabin
  • Gert Fröbe
  • George Raft

  In this crime drama, two middle-aged gangsters attempt to run an international smuggling ring and begin looking for new people to sneak their illicit gold across Europe. They take on a jobless journalist to assist, not realizing he is really a US government agent who is looking to see if the two crime lords are affiliated with an American crime boss who runs illegal guns to Cuba. The agent discovers that the two are not affiliated with the Mafia. The American Mafioso wants them to be though and eventually sabotages their operation and forces them to join. During a meeting between the two sides, the smuggler pretends to willingly acquiesce to the American. He also manages to surreptitiously plant a bomb that explodes and kills everyone but him. The US agent is impressed and compliments the wily old smuggler. The smuggler shrugs him off.