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Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Georges Lautner, Jean Paul Belmondo, Jean Pierre Melville, Rene Clement, Robert Stack, Tony Perkins, Weird Scenes, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine
The French crime film is different from those of other countries for several reasons.
While some, certainly Jean Dellanoy’s Soleil Des Voyeux (aka Action Man) draw elements from the German Krimi and the George Nader Jerry Cotton films and even the serial (particularly those of Feuillade, whose Fantomas and Les Vampires remain surprisingly gripping and modern in feel and approach), the overarching vibe is less that of contemporaneous American crime films or Italian poliziotteschi than it is, as you might expect from the nation that coined the term, the American film noir and gangster pictures of the late 30s and 1940s.