Bob le flambeur [videorecording] = Bob the gambler / produit par l'Organisation générale cinématographique, Productions cyme, Play art ; scénario original de Melville ; adaptation de Melville et Auguste le Breton ; dialogues de Auguste le Breton ; un film de Melville.

Publisher: [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2002]

ISBN: 0780025016
9780780025011

Description: 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Series: Criterion collection ; 150
Classic collection

Subject: Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973 Interviews.
Cauchy, Daniel, 1930- Interviews.
Gambling Drama.
Feature films.
Caper films.
Film noir.
Detective and mystery films.

Credits: Director of photography, Henri Decae ; editor, Monique Bonnot ; music, Eddie Barclay, Jean Boyer.

Performers: Isabel Corey, Daniel Cauchy, Roger Duchesne, Guy Decomble, Andrè Garet.

Notes: In French with optional English subtitles; DVD menu in English.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.
"Janus Films, Rialto Pictures, Studio Canal."
Includes special features: the original theatrical trailer, a 2002 interview with Daniel Cauchy, and an edited version of a 1961 radio interview of Jean-Pierre Melville by Gideon Bachmann.
Special features are in color.
Booklet in container includes a brief essay by Luc Sante and an English translation of a 1970 interview with Jean-Pierre Melville excerpted from Melville on Melville / Rui Nogueira.

Summary: Bob the gambler and his friends learn that the Deauville Casino expects to pull in 800 million francs. On the night of the heist Bob plays the casino tables until the appointed time. Before the dawn breaks, some of the men and women will win, some will lose, and some will die.