Le Samouraï (1967)
When we’re backpacking across the old countries for September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION we gotta stop and sample some of that fine French excellence that Orson Welles so drunkingly told us about. We’re playing it cool with today’s discussion of our second ever Jean-Pierre Melville movie for the show and it’s his swaggiest by far. We’re talking “Le Samouraï” from 1967 starring Alain Delon, Francois Perier, Cathy Rosier and more. Delon plays a cold-as-ice hitman who lives by a personal code of solitude. When an employer turns on him he keeps his contracts while plotting revenge for the…
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