Le Doulos

For the 1955 film "Finger Man", see Finger Man.

Le Doulos
Directed byJean-Pierre Melville
Written byJean-Pierre Melville
Based ona novel
by Pierre Lesou
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyNicolas Hayer
Edited byMonique Bonnot
Music byPaul Misraki
Production
companies
  • Rome-Paris Film
  • C.C. Champion[1]
Distributed by
  • Lux-Films
  • CCF[1]
Release date
  • 13 December 1962 (1962-12-13) (Italy)
Running time
108 minutes[2]
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office1,475,391 admissions

Le Doulos (French pronunciation: [lə dulos]) is a 1962 French crime film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, adapted from the novel of the same name by Pierre Lesou. It was released theatrically as The Finger Man in the English-speaking world, but all video and DVD releases have used the French title. Intertitles at the beginning of the film explain that the French title refers both to a kind of hat and to the slang term for a police informant.[3]

  1. ^ a b c Vincendeau 2003, p. 233.
  2. ^ Vincendeau 2003, p. 234.
  3. ^ A Samurai in Paris Nogueira, Rui; TRUCHAUD, FRANCOIS. Sight and Sound; London Vol. 37, Iss. 3, (Summer 1968): 118.