Pépé le Moko (1937)

Review: Pépé le Moko (1937)

Director: Julien Duvivier

Cast: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Gabriel Gabrio, Lucas Gridoux, Gilbert Gil,

Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin
Mireille Balin
Mireille Balin
Gabriel Gabrio
Gabriel Gabrio
Lucas Gridoux
Lucas Gridoux
Gilbert Gil
Gilbert Gil

Plot: Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.

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Hong Kong’s Studio One cinema club

Hong Kong’s Studio One cinema club

During an eight-month visit to Hong Kong in 1980-81, I took out a membership in a cinema club called Studio One. I recently came across the eight monthly schedules for their screenings and discovered that my memory of the movies I’d been to […]

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