Summer grab-bag, part one
As usual, there’s no coherent pattern to what I spend my time watching. In the past few months, I given my overtaxed attention to quite a few movies from the ’70s and ’80s – British sex comedies and cop movies, Italian […]
Review: Armageddon (1977)
Director: Alain Jessua
Cast: Alain Delon, Jean Yanne, Renato Salvatori, Marie Déa, Michel Creton,
Alain Delon
Jean Yanne
Renato Salvatori
Marie Déa
Michel Creton
Plot: After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.
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