| Touchez pas au grisbi | |
|---|---|
 Italian film poster | |
| Directed by | Jacques Becker |
| Screenplay by | Jacques Becker Albert Simonin Maurice Griffe |
| Based on | Touchez pas au grisbi by Albert Simonin |
| Produced by | Robert Dorfmann |
| Starring | Jean Gabin René Dary Dora Doll Paul Frankeur Jeanne Moreau Lino Ventura |
| Cinematography | Pierre Montazel |
| Edited by | Marguerite Renoir |
| Music by | Jean Wiener |
| Distributed by | Les Films Corona |
Release dates |
|
Running time | 94 minutes |
| Countries | France Italy |
| Language | French |
| Box office | 4,710,496 admissions (France)[1] $131,548[2] (2003 US re-release) |
Touchez pas au grisbi ([tu.ʃe pɑ 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.
- ^ "1954 Box Office in France". Box Office Story.
- ^ Box Office Mojo
- ^ Lambert, Gavin. In the picture - Venice. Sight and Sound, October to December 1954, p58.