Three Men to Kill

Three Men to Kill
Directed byJacques Deray
Screenplay byJacques Deray
Alain Delon
Christopher Frank
Based onLe Petit Bleu de la côte ouest by Jean-Patrick Manchette
Produced byAlain Delon
Alain Terzian
StarringAlain Delon
Dalila Di Lazzaro
CinematographyJean Tournier
Music byClaude Bolling
Production
companies
Adel Productions
Antenne-2
Distributed byUnion Générale Cinématographique (UGC)
Release date
  • 31 October 1980 (1980-10-31)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$16.5 million[1]

Three Men to Kill (French: Trois hommes à abattre) is a French crime film released in 1980, directed by Jacques Deray, starring Alain Delon with Dalila Di Lazzaro. The screenplay is written by Jacques Deray, Alain Delon and Christopher Frank based on the novel Le Petit Bleu de la côte ouest by Jean-Patrick Manchette.

The story is about Michel Gerfaut (Delon), charming professional card player who out of nowhere becomes involved in some retribution between weapon traders of high level.

With 2,194,795 tickets sold, the film ranked 16th at the French box-office in 1980.[2] Three Men to Kill is the first film of a group of popular films released in the 1980s and starring Alain Delon that share a visual and narrative style, followed by For a Cop's Hide (1981) and Le battant (1983).

  1. ^ Box office information for film at Box office story
  2. ^ "Trois hommes à abattre (1980) - JPBox-Office". www.jpbox-office.com. Retrieved 2019-11-21.