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| Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Screenplay by | Jean-Luc Godard |
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| Produced by | Georges de Beauregard |
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| Cinematography | Raoul Coutard |
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| Distributed by | Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $50,000[1] |
| Box office | $95,209[2] |
Made in U.S.A is a 1966 French crime comedy film[3] written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, and starring Anna Karina, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marianne Faithfull, Yves Afonso, and Jean-Claude Bouillon. It was a loose and unauthorized adaptation of the 1965 novel The Jugger by Richard Stark (an alias of Donald E. Westlake), and was also inspired by the 1946 Howard Hawks film The Big Sleep (which was, in turn, an adaptation of the 1939 novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler).
Because neither Godard nor the producer got permission or paid for the rights to adapt The Jugger, Westlake brought legal action, and the film was not released in the United States for over four decades. A newly restored print of the film was distributed by Rialto Pictures in 2009, starting with a screening at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on April 1, which was three months after Westlake's death.[4] The Criterion Collection released the film on DVD in July 2009.[5]
- ^ Box Office Information for Made in U.S.A. IMDb. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
- ^ "Made in U.S.A, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
- ^ Gates, Anita (15 December 2019). "Anna Karina, Star of French New Wave Cinema, Is Dead at 79". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ Made in U.S.A. Archived 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine from Rialto Pictures
- ^ Made in U.S.A from The Criterion Collection