Le Cercle Rouge

1970 PG-13 2h 20m

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When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.

Director Jean-Pierre Melville

Writers

Jean-Pierre Melville

Stars

Alain Delon Bourvil Gian Maria Volonté

Alain Delon

Corey

Bourvil

Commissioner François Mattei

Marchand, Inspector General of Police

Committing magistrate

René Berthier

Judiciary Police Director

Anna Douking

Corey's old girlfriend

Jean-Marc Boris

Jean-Marc, Santi's Son

Robert Favart

Salesman at Mauboussin

Paul, Rico's henchman

Édouard Francomme

Billiard hall watchman

Cigarette seller (uncredited)

Guy Henry

Guardian (uncredited)

Crime Thriller

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Geronimo1967 3 Jun 2023

7/10

Though it takes quite a while to get going, and I constantly wanted to rub that annoying moustache from the face of Alain Delon ("Corey") I really rather enjoyed this crime caper. Delon recruits the dapper ex-cop with a drink problem - "Jansen" (Yves Montand), and the recently escaped "Vogel" (Gian Maria Volontè) into his plan to rob an exclusive Parisian jewellers. Situated on the top floor of a ...

CRCulver 1 Sep 2018

8/10

Jean-Pierre Meville's 1970 film <i>Le Cercle rouge</i> (The Red Circle) is a crime caper based on the interplay of several initially unacquainted individuals. As Melville's fake quote from the Buddha that serves as the intertitle goes, "When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever the diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the...