Episode 617: Bob Le Flambeur (1956)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

French Month continues with a look at Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob Le Flambeur. Released in 1956, the film was the first of many gangster films directed by Melville. Based on his story with dialogue by Auguste LeBreton, it tells the tale of Bob (Roger Duchesne), an aging man who robbed a bank 20 years prior, and now spends his time going from game to game -- craps, cards, whatever. He even has a slot machine in his Montmartre apartment.

Samm Deighan and Andrew Leavold join Mike to discuss the film while Ginette Vincendeau (Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris) talks Melville overall.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Cut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:26.8	Turn it off.
0:31.6	Hey, Tell me a word, a soul, a soul.
0:44.0	Donville.
0:45.3	Hmm, well gull, boy you.
0:57.0	This Bob, is one of your indicators?
1:00.0	You want to say Bob the flambor?
1:06.0	Yes, si.
1:07.0	Are you, you are you, A friend?
1:17.8	And you're Do you have it everett?
1:18.2	A mark.
1:19.5	Yes, but I didn't
1:20.5	Not.
1:21.4	When?
1:22.8	This night.
1:28.3	Caste, you, you, you have you. Caste, you!
	...

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