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Touchez Pas au Grisbi (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]

Jean Gabin (Actor), Ren Dary (Actor), Jacques Becker (Director, Writer) Rated:
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Genre Foreign
Format Special Edition, Subtitled, Black & White, NTSC, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen
Contributor Angelo Dessy, Ren Dary, Gaby Basset, Denise Clair, Lucilla Solivani, Dora Doll, Marilyn Buferd, Paul Barge, Alain Bouvette, Daniel Cauchy, Vittorio Sanipoli, Maurice Griffe, Jean Gabin, Albert Simonin, Jacques Becker See more
Language French
Runtime 1 hour and 36 minutes
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Jean Gabin is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max le Menteur in the Jacques Becker gem Touchez pas au grisbi (Hands Off the Loot!). Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton (René Dary), Max's hapless partner and best friend, lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy (Jeanne Moreau), Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. A touchstone of the gangster-film genre, Touchez pas au grisbi is also pure Becker—understated, elegant, evocative.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 0.01 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Jacques Becker
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Special Edition, Subtitled, Black & White, NTSC, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 36 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 18, 2005
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Jean Gabin, Ren Dary, Dora Doll, Vittorio Sanipoli, Marilyn Buferd
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0006HC0I2
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Albert Simonin, Jacques Becker, Maurice Griffe
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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Customers praise this French gangster movie for its sophisticated style and brilliant details, with one review highlighting its beautiful restored black and white images. The film features a character-driven narrative and receives positive feedback for its construction and entertainment value, with one customer noting it's an essential viewing experience for cinephiles.

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15 customers mention "Gangster movie genre"15 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate this French gangster movie, describing it as a refined and sophisticated film noir.

"...Touchez Pas Au Grisbi is a stunning gangster tale where the old ways are to face off with the new...." Read more

"...have an absolutely pristine print of this understated and refined French gangster movie...." Read more

"Jacques Becker's ultra cool French gangster classic of respectable tough guy thief (the always wonderful Jean Gabin) recruited for one last gold..." Read more

"Good flick" Read more

5 customers mention "Detail"5 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the film's attention to detail, with one customer noting how it meticulously portrays ordinary tasks, while another highlights its sophisticated presentation and multifaceted approach.

"...Refinement, sophistication, and class are qualities that should be attached with characteristics such as trust, confidence, and mutual respect...." Read more

"...heavy-handed violent gangster movies, but a more elegant and sophisticated presentation that focuses on character development and its themes of..." Read more

"...The performances, the cinematography, the music, the mise-en-scene and at the center, Gabin!" Read more

"...It is a perfect gangster movie that shows reality of life. Just great." Read more

4 customers mention "Image quality"4 positive0 negative

Customers praise the movie's image quality, with one noting the beautifully restored black and white images, while another describes it as a seminal French picture from the Fifties.

"...and loving hands of the folks at Criterion, we have an absolutely pristine print of this understated and refined French gangster movie...." Read more

"...(or, roughly, "Hands off the Loot") is a seminal French picture from the Fifties...." Read more

"...sequences -machine gun shootout car chase is a standout- are remarkably modern and post-modern...." Read more

"...Criterion copy of "Touchez pas le grisbi," now out of print, is beautifully restored...." Read more

4 customers mention "Quality"4 positive0 negative

Customers praise the DVD's quality, with one noting its wonderful construction and another mentioning it arrived in perfect condition.

"...To see GRISBI is to see not only a wonderful construction, and proof that Gabin retained his power even into middle age, but a kind of..." Read more

"...Gritty, witty, and thrilling story of honor among thieves, with a perfect amount of cliche'...." Read more

"Packaging was a little less then I expected but the quality of the disc itself was great. Good extras too...." Read more

"A classic in perfect condition..." Read more

3 customers mention "Character development"3 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the character-driven nature of the movie, with one mentioning its superb cast.

"...but a more elegant and sophisticated presentation that focuses on character development and its themes of loyalty, betrayal, and an adherence to a..." Read more

"...It's a character driven movie." Read more

"...I was delighted to be able to watch a classic film with a superb cast." Read more

3 customers mention "Entertainment value"3 positive0 negative

Customers find the movie entertaining, with one describing it as an essential viewing experience for cinephiles.

"...as Touchez Pas Au Grisbi offers a complex and enriching cinematic experience." Read more

"...noir and gangster films is way ahead of it's time and top notch entertainment that inspired a generation...." Read more

"Amazing film, essential viewing for any cinephile!" Read more

3 customers mention "Value for money"3 positive0 negative

Customers find the movie worth the money, with one customer noting that the Blu-Ray version is particularly valuable.

"...GRISBI is well worth the money!" Read more

"...To be clear the Criterion edition is excellent for a DVD, but if you area a Collectionneuse like myself just get it!..." Read more

"Any film with the great Jean Gabin is worth a watch.Having said that, this film was really a disappointed with this movie thou..." Read more

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  • Dine Fuss
    5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning Gangster Tale with Class...
    Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2005
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    Class is often confused with style and fashion in the regards to how one dresses. In our contemporary society this confusion is frequently expressed through flamboyance, which is usually the result of how money talks. However, this vain perception of class has nothing to do with one's self conduct. Refinement, sophistication, and class are qualities that should be attached with characteristics such as trust, confidence, and mutual respect. These qualities are what define a gentleman. When people see a true gentleman they only see the exterior, and it is this exterior that money buys.

    The days of gentlemen criminals are long gone. Films such as Scarface (1983), New Jack City (1991), or any of Takashi Miike's violent gangster illustrations depict the new style of gangsters that contemporary society is facing where disloyal and ill-mannered thugs roll in the direction of dough. These films visualize the frightening power money has on people. This could be seen up close in a grotesque manner in the brilliant Maria Full of Grace (2004) where humans are being regarded as pack mules. Touchez Pas Au Grisbi, which was shot over a half century ago, depicts the coming of this new criminal element.

    Nostalgia swallows Jacques Becker's crime story about the aging criminal and gentleman Max (Jean Gabin). The story takes place in Paris where Max lives life with a women half his age while spending untold numbers of nights desiring the same meaningless affection from the women seeking their way into men's wallets. The many visits to the night clubs have led Max to discover that he has grown old, and many of the people around him are older. The life he once desired is no longer as appealing, as he decides that he wants to return home early. Max even discloses this to his friend Riton (René Dary) while having found out that Riton's young girlfriend has found a younger lover, as she has previously given Riton empty promises of love.

    The professional life, which Max has chosen for himself is also undergoing a transformation. Younger generations are cutting into the growing drug business without the consideration of others, and these young newcomers show little class while they trample on everyone in their sight. Recently Max carried out a job that brought him and his partner Riton 50 million worth in Orly gold bars. This was to be Max's final job before retirement, however, the newcomers in the criminal underworld seem to want change his destiny.

    Touchez Pas Au Grisbi is a stunning gangster tale where the old ways are to face off with the new. This is depicted through Max who is undergoing a personal life changing experience, as he is confronted by events around him that make him question what he is doing. The character that Jean Gabin delivers to the screen is marvelously multifaceted, as he portrays the gentleman thief by being a tender lover, clever diplomat, friendly patron, and firm interrogator. The cast around Gabin also displays nice work as they all accentuate Max's uniqueness by being fairly simple characters. Much is due to Becker's marvelous directing, which comes together through all the aspects of filmmaking. This eventually leaves the audience in a haze of bewilderment, as Touchez Pas Au Grisbi offers a complex and enriching cinematic experience.
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  • bdlion
    5.0 out of 5 stars "The Celler Is Better - No One Will Hear Him Scream."
    Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2005
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    Like a fine wine, TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI has aged wonderfully. Under the expert and loving hands of the folks at Criterion, we have an absolutely pristine print of this understated and refined French gangster movie. Watching the Criterion DVD is to fall completely into the film, as the restored black and white images are simply glorious.

    This movie is not like today's heavy-handed violent gangster movies, but a more elegant and sophisticated presentation that focuses on character development and its themes of loyalty, betrayal, and an adherence to a moral code. Jean Gabin, who plays the urbane and respected criminal Max, is the soul of this movie, presenting Max as charming, stoic, and ruthless. Great detail is given to ordinary tasks, like the serving of a meal, brushing of one's teeth, etc., but the effect, instead of arty, goes to the development of the characters and the portrayal of them as regular folks.

    Lest you believe this is a slow talky picture, there are moments of explosive violence that will send a chill through you. Suspense is created through the most effective of methods: by what you don't see and what is filled in by one's own imagination. As the tension mounts in the movie, you will be glued to the screen gripping the arms of your chair with withering anticipation. They don't make 'em like this anymore, neither here nor in Europe. This movie is a fine example of both French cinema before the New Wave, and of the gangster genre.

    In any language, TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI means film excellence, especially after the careful, painstaking restoration by Criterion Studios.
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  • Allen Smalling
    5.0 out of 5 stars Not to be missed! ~
    Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2017
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    TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI (or, roughly, "Hands off the Loot") is a seminal French picture from the Fifties. While I agree with the prior reviewer who said that the film is more about aging and friendship than the interior workings of gangsters, it has enough of the underworld to satisfy even the most fervent American gangster-movie fan: tough guys, rough guys, dolls, molls, chantoosies and the semi-retired all grapple with the incomparable Jean Gabin, out to save his best friend from a routine (and brutal) kidnapping. This movie above all others proves that the Parisians, who had been denied American films during the Nazi occupation during World War II, fairly gorged on U.S. gangster movies, especially the type now called *Noir*, after the war ended. To see GRISBI is to see not only a wonderful construction, and proof that Gabin retained his power even into middle age, but a kind of recapitulation of classic "dark" American movies, including TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE and those wonderful old Fox black-and-whites like WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS. GRISBI is well worth the money!
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  • KG
    5.0 out of 5 stars A film of brilliant details
    Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2011
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    As Truffaut stated, this is really more a film about friendship and aging than about gangsters.

    Jean Gabin is brilliant as Max, the elegant, dignified underworld leader who is growing tired,
    and wants to retire quietly off his last score. This is a film that lives in the brilliant human
    details. We never see the big heist itself - it's already over when the film starts. But we do see
    Gabin brushing his teeth, looking at the bags under his eyes in the mirror, etc.

    Now it's all about finding a way to close the books on a career, and still protect his best friend
    and colleague, who becomes a target when other mobsters want to get their hands on the take.

    The story itself could be called thin, but Becker fills it with so many telling human moments and
    details that I was touched and involved.

    Yes, there were a few places where the plot, logic, or motivation holes bugged me just a touch.
    However, I suspect I'll warm to this even further on a eagerly anticipated second viewing.

    Criterion do their usual superior job with the transfer.
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  • Luis Pérez Bastías
    5.0 out of 5 stars Cine negro de calidad
    Reviewed in Spain on January 21, 2015
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    Guión redondo, con diálogos muy inteligentes y verdadero estilo en la personalidad de los personajes. Combina el realismo con el cine comercial con desenlace relativamente feliz. Jean Gabin está magnífico, no sólo por sí mismo, sino también por la labor del director y por el personaje que le regala el guión, un gánster duro y pintoresco al tiempo, cuya venganza no está exenta de buen humor. Muy recomendable para todo el que ame el cine clásico.
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  • CINECRAZY
    5.0 out of 5 stars BAPTEME DU FEU DE LINO
    Reviewed in France on January 20, 2025
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    Ce film a un peu vieilli mais c'est à voir pour la 1ère apparition de Lino Ventura et une des 1ères de Jeanne Moreau. Après la fin de la guerre et après son débarquement avec la 2ème DB de Leclerc qui libèrera Paris, raison pour laquelle il refusera à René Clément sa participation à "Paris brûle-t-il?" Jean Gabin ne retrouve pas le succès d'avant l'occupation et entame ce qu'il appelait sa "traversée du désert". Il part alors tourner en Italie. C'est ce succès de Becker qui marquera son retour en vedette de 1er choix en France jusqu'à sa disparition. Une œuvre "marqueur" donc...
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  • Filippo Poggi
    5.0 out of 5 stars Capolavoro noir francese
    Reviewed in Italy on February 28, 2023
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    Jean Gabin assolutamente straordinario e bravi tutti gli altri con Lino Ventura al suo esordio. Video e audio ottimi.
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  • Dr René Codoni
    5.0 out of 5 stars Speed and taste
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2012
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    Touchez pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker, 1954, 94')

    Produced by Robert Dorfmann
    Written by Jacques Becker, Maurice Griffe, Albert Simonin
    Starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura, Dora Doll, Delia Scala, René Dary, and Miss America 1946, Marilyn Buferd
    Music by Jean Wiener
    Cinematography by Pierre Montazel
    Editing by Marguerite Renoir.

    An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom. Touchez pas au grisbi (French for "Don't touch the loot") is a French crime film.

    French actor Daniel Gélin was first offered the role of Max but turned it down, seeing himself as too young for the part. Gabin then agreed to do the film, and his role helped to relaunch his career, which had been suffering since the end of the World War II.

    Satisfactory all the way around, excellent actIng - among other, young Jeanne Moreau and Dora Doll make nice gangster brides - and that bit of nostalgic Paris which always comes up in the early French postwar films. A couple of nice shoot-outs between gangsters, no police needed.

    214 Touchez pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker, 1954, 94') -Speed and taste - 3/12/2012
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  • ブルボン
    5.0 out of 5 stars 痺れる台詞
    Reviewed in Japan on December 24, 2021
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    画質がHDマスターとの事ですが、通常バージョンの
    画質を持っていないため未確認です。
    痺れる台詞「俺たちには時間がないんだ」「重いだろう、持ってやろうか」と
    女性をからかったり、大人の男が紙袋からラスクをカラカラと
    皿にあけて酒を注ぐシーンなど痺れる描写満載です。
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