During a career that lasted almost fifty years the great Gabin made nigh on a hundred films. Considering this output there weren't that many duds but this one is absolutely atrocious. A deeply unpleasant opus that panders to the baser instincts, lumbered with a moronic script, garish colour and a terminally irritating score by Serge Gainsbourg that bursts in at the most inopportune moments.
Suffice to say Monsieur Gabin is riveting but apart from Christian Barbier as one of his sons in-law and Pierre Dux as a judge, the rest of the cast is strictly 'B'.
It beggars belief that Pierre Granier-Deferre who gave us 'La Veuve Couderc', 'Le Chat' 'Le Train' and 'L' Etoile du Nord' could have been responsible for this unadulterated trash.
Suffice to say Monsieur Gabin is riveting but apart from Christian Barbier as one of his sons in-law and Pierre Dux as a judge, the rest of the cast is strictly 'B'.
It beggars belief that Pierre Granier-Deferre who gave us 'La Veuve Couderc', 'Le Chat' 'Le Train' and 'L' Etoile du Nord' could have been responsible for this unadulterated trash.