Three Men to Kill | |
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Directed by | Jacques Deray |
Screenplay by | Jacques Deray Alain Delon Christopher Frank |
Based on | Le Petit Bleu de la côte ouest by Jean-Patrick Manchette |
Produced by | Alain Delon Alain Terzian |
Starring | Alain Delon Dalila Di Lazzaro |
Cinematography | Jean Tournier |
Music by | Claude Bolling |
Production companies | Adel Productions Antenne-2 |
Distributed by | Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC) |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
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).