Wow, I tip my hat to a Melville fan.
Thanks, same to you. I try to tell people that there are so many great foreign films, but they “can’t stand subtitles”. Lol, I can’t stand dubbing.
We rag on the French here, but there are some stellar “guy films” from that era. Just watched Clouzou’s THE WAGES OF FEAR again recently. Had no idea he and Hitchcock were intense rivals at the time. Hitchcock’s LIFEBOAT was made 10 years prior and had a similarly dire setting.