Touchez pas au grisbi

Touchez pas au grisbi
Italian film poster
Directed byJacques Becker
Screenplay byJacques Becker
Albert Simonin
Maurice Griffe
Based onTouchez pas au grisbi by Albert Simonin
Produced byRobert Dorfmann
StarringJean Gabin
René Dary
Dora Doll
Paul Frankeur
Jeanne Moreau
Lino Ventura
CinematographyPierre Montazel
Edited byMarguerite Renoir
Music byJean Wiener
Distributed byLes Films Corona
Release dates
  • 3 March 1954 (1954-03-03) (France)
  • 9 September 1954 (1954-09-09) (Italy)
Running time
94 minutes
CountriesFrance
Italy
LanguageFrench
Box office4,710,496 admissions (France)[1]
$131,548[2]
(2003 US re-release)

Touchez pas au grisbi ([tu.ʃe o ɡʁiz.bi], French for "Don't touch the loot"), released as Honour Among Thieves in the United Kingdom and Grisbi in the United States, is a 1954 French-Italian crime film based on a novel by Albert Simonin. It was directed by Jacques Becker and stars Jean Gabin, with René Dary, Paul Frankeur, Lino Ventura, Jeanne Moreau, Dora Doll, and Marilyn Buferd. The film was screened in competition at the 1954 Venice Film Festival where Gabin won a best actor award.[3]

The film is the first installment of the so-called "Max le Menteur trilogy", which are all based on novels by Simonin, but feature different characters; it was followed by Le cave se rebiffe and Les tontons flingueurs, both of which are more comedic than Grisbi.

  1. ^ "1954 Box Office in France". Box Office Story.
  2. ^ Box Office Mojo
  3. ^ Lambert, Gavin. In the picture - Venice. Sight and Sound, October to December 1954, p58.