Man Called Rocca

1961 [FRENCH]

Crime / Drama

IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 624 624

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Plot summary

Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto sets out to seduce Villanova's mistress, but when Villanova is killed, Roberto ends up leader of the band...

Director

Top cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Roberto La Rocca
Christine Kaufmann as Geneviève Adé
Dominique Zardi as Un prisonnier démineur
Adrien Cayla-Legrand as Albert, un surveillant du réfectoire
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
976.28 MB
1280*768
French 2.0
NR
es  
24 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 1
1.77 GB
1800*1080
French 2.0
NR
es  
24 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dbdumonteil

Becker jr/Giovanni .

In 1959,just before his death,Jacques Becker adapted for the screen,José Giovanni's "le trou" :the only Giovanni novel which gave a genuine masterpiece.So when the young Becker (Jean) emerged first as a Henri Verneuil and Julien Duvivier assistant,it was only natural that the "casque d'or" director's son teamed up with the novelist for his first effort.This first effort is very undistinguished in its first part,but becomes better in the second half which takes place in a jail and then on a beach where the voluntary prisoners do mine clearance.The scenes in the prison were always convincing in Giovanni's screenplays ,because he 'd done time himself (see his 2000 movie "mon père ,il m'a sauvé la vie").It's an accurate depiction of a French prison circa 1960.Then the mines segment is of course suspenseful .The last fifteen minutes come as an anticlimax afterward..Jean Becker would enjoy a lot of success with his overblown (and highly overrated) "l'été meurtrier" at the beginning of the eighties.As for Giovanni he made himself a remake of "un nommé la Rocca" in 1972:Belmondo took on his leading part,Christine Kaufman was replaced by Claudia Cardinale and Michel Constantin -who plays here a small part of an American deserter who goes racketeering the nightclubs- was cast as Xavier ,Pierre Vaneck's role.The new movie was called "la scoumoune" (= rotten luck)but did not bring anything new:highlights remain the scenes on the beach.The conclusion is slightly different .
Reviewed by philosopherjack

Somewhat Melvillian in its style, if not as much in its worldview

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