Pepe le Moko (BFI Film Classics)

By Ginette Vincendeau

Pépé le Moko (1937), directed via Julien Duvivier from the unconventional by way of Roger Ashelle and starring Jean Gabin, is the epitome of 1930's French cinema. It tells the tale of the glamorous gangster Pepe, trapped within the Casbah in Algiers. This hugely romantic and atmospheric mystery used to be an important to the improvement of French movie noir and encouraged a couple of remakes and lots of imitations. Vincendeau's meticulous research, written in a full of life and obtainable sort, areas Pépé le Moko in its aesthetic, time-honored and cultural contexts.

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