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Bob le flambeur (1956) More at IMDbPro »

• Considered a precursor to the French New Wave films that start in 1959
  
  
• Jean-Luc Godard's favorite Melville movie. Often claimed it to be the height of French films inspired by American noir.
  
  
• Jean-Pierre Melville auditioned Alain Delon for the character of Paulo. He rejected him for fear he would steal the show.
  
  
• Was a huge influence on the film The Transporter (2002). The criminal and cop relation was directly influenced from this film.
  
  
• Jean Cocteau did an uncredited rewrite of the script at one point for Jean-Pierre Melville. Most of the script was rejected because it focused too much Bob and Paulo's relationship rather then Melville's original intentions.
  
  
• Stanley Kubrick once said in an interview he gave up doing "Crime Films" because Jean-Pierre Melville did the greatest with Bob le flambeur (1956) and Jacques Becker did the second best with Touchez pas au grisbi (1954). He later directed A Clockwork Orange (1971) however stating he never considered it a "crime film", but a socio-political film.
  
  
• Bob drives a stylish 1955 Plymouth Belvedere convertible.
  
  

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