Ep. 80 Any Number Can Win & Touchez Pas Au Grisbi

“Don’t gush over the sea. It’s always been there.” It's a “Jean
Gabin is getting too for this shit” double feature! On this
episode, hosts Christopher Funderburg and John Cribbs discuss two
unforgettable French crime films: Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au
grisbi (1954) and Henri Verneuil's Any Number Can Win (1963), both
starring the grandfather of quiet cool, M. Jean Gabin. Playing
aging gangsters intent on making off with that last big score, the
legendary leading man slipped into these late-career roles like a
comfy pair of silk pajamas - and looked amazing in those pajamas,
too. Eyeing longtime Pink Smoke favorite Grisbi like a coveted bar
of gold, the guys question why it's so difficult to contextualize
such an obvious masterpiece, its director's place in cinema history
and what the movie is really about. They compare it to Verneuil's
later film, which also features Alain Delon as a (gorgeous) young
thug enlisted by Gabin to heist a seaside casino. Both movies are
fun, sad, sexy and poetic as any great French crime film, but most
importantly they help establish the difference between a gentleman
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twitter.com/TheLastMachine Intro music: Unleash the Bastards /
“Tea for Two” 
Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas”