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Pepe Le Moko (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]

Jean Gabin (Actor), Gabriel Gabrio (Actor), Julien Duvivier (Director, Writer) Rated:
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Genre Drama
Format Black & White, Multiple Formats, Subtitled, NTSC
Contributor Henri La Barthe, Charles Granval, Lucas Gridoux, Marcel Dalio, Henri Jeanson, Paul Escoffier, Jacques Constant, Gaston Modot, Ren Bergeron, Roger Legris, Saturnin Fabre, Fernand Charpin, Gilbert Gil, Julien Duvivier, Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio See more
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Runtime 1 hour and 34 minutes
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The notorious Pepe le Moko (Jean Gabin, in a truly iconic performance) is a wanted man: women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him, and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the labyrinthine Casbah of Algiers, Pepe is safe from the clutches of the police--until a Parisian playgirl compels him to risk his life and leave its confines once and for all. Once of the most influential films of the 20th century and a landmark of French poetic realism.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches; 2.88 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2225067
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Julien Duvivier
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Black & White, Multiple Formats, Subtitled, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 34 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ March 21, 2010
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre, Fernand Charpin, Lucas Gridoux
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion Collection
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00007CVS3
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Henri Jeanson, Henri La Barthe, Jacques Constant, Julien Duvivier
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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alc02
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Film
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2024
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This is a great movie and the Criterion DVD adds a lot of hard to get additional information about the film, its place in history, its relationship to the two remakes ("Algiers" and the I-don't-know-what-they-were-thinking "Casbah") and an interview with the director Julien Duvivier. I use this film for my undergraduate course about North African culture and aesthetics and its a great encapsulation of the French idea of Algeria, and the world in general, c. 1930.
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John E. Taylor
4.0 out of 5 stars Important film.
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2023
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Great film, but a bit dated.
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Montgomery
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb transfer and updated subtitles
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2023
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There is nothing new to say about one of the finest French movies of all time and all time to come. The production value of this Criterion disk is equal to the subject upon it. The updated subtitles make more sense and reveal the subtle humor generally lost in translation. This Criterion production lives up to the excellent standards we expect from the Criterion name. Kudos.
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Frank
5.0 out of 5 stars Place and Character Extraordinaire
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2012
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I saw this first at the National Gallery of Art in DC and loved it. Duvivier made many films, and made them well. In this film, the place is absolutely wonderful. Although the film was made in 1937, Duvivier shot some fascinating angles of the Casbah, which created an exotic atmosphere that pervaded the film. The evocation of place included not only the complex architecture of the Casbah, but also the complex and varied society, which was well represented in the main characters, especially by Line Noro as Pepe's old girlfriend. Lucas Gridoux as slimey Inspecteur Slimane contributed a wonderfully effective part in the network of people whom Pepe saw most often.

Black and white suits this film well, since it makes the Casbah look like a place that is no more, and never was part of the modern world.

Jean Gabin brings exactly the right elements to Pepe - rugged, tried, resourceful, and sometimes brutal, yet vulnerable - an Everyman who was no better than he could be, yet longed for a better life.

While some pre-war films have become dated, the romance of Pepe le Moko, and the beautiful evocation of the Casbah, will always be worth revisiting, even if it may one day end up in the huge junkpile that is the setting of Wall-E.
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Shoe-aholic
4.0 out of 5 stars Good movie, big crush
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2022
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This is the French original to the American remake “Algiers”. I always enjoy cross cultural movies, but developed a crush on Jean Gabin. He is the soulful fugitive in the film. He also aged very well on screen.
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Elvin Ortiz
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and Seductive
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2020
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It's not on Blu-ray, but that doesn't matter. I loved this film for its main character, Pepe, and for its setting and atmosphere. As claustrophobic as Casablanca, the Casbah in Argelia is a place difficult to escape. Instead of hounding Nazis, there is the French police. And instead of Rick, there is Pepe. However, Pepe is a thief at heart and the charismatic boss of the gang, adored by many women, and respected by everyone in the Casbah, including the local police. Because of his charisma and his wits, the French police have a hard time catching him. It only takes a beautiful Parisienne (the femme fatale) and a sly police who uses her as bait to plot a capture. This is a story that I can watch over and over. One of the best of the thirties.
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Paul Kao
5.0 out of 5 stars review of Pepe Le Moko
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2012
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This is a black & white French classic film from the 1930s starring Jean Gabin. It was remade in the U.S. as Algiers starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamar. The original French version is better. Part of the extras to the DVD includes a comparison of the two. They're almost scene-for-scene the same.

Pepe (Jean Gabin) is a thief who has been hiding in the Casbah in Algiers since he made off with the goods from his last heist. His money and his forceful personality have made him a big man in the Casbah. Police fear to enter the Casbah, but will catch Pepe if he ever leaves. The police headquarters in Paris wonders why it's taking so long to catch Pepe and send someone down, but it's the local cop who does all the work.

A group of rich French tourists come to Algiers, and the beautiful mistress of the richest tourist meets Pepe.

Watch the film to see the rest. The film is excellent.
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Dine Fuss
5.0 out of 5 stars Dazzling pursue for freedom�
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2003
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Pépé, a notorious gangster from Paris, has been forced to seek refuge in the maze of Casbah where he evades the police's futile attempts to capture him. During the police force's attempts to find a way to capture him, the mobster Pépé continues to raid jewelry stores and steal whatever he can get his hands on, and when he is not on a robbery he spends his time with his lover, Inès, or plays card. However, one night when Pépé is dodging the police's hopeless attempts to catch him, he crosses paths with Gaby Gould, a stunning Parisian woman. This encounter opens up Pandora's Box for Pépé and he falls in love with Gaby who reminds him of ultimate freedom. The score played in the film intensifies the perplexity of Pépé's situation that is further improved through cinematography, which produces a sense of entrapment. In addition, the misé-en-scene and acting is of world class. In end, Pépé Le Moko offers a spellbinding story, which at the end deliberately forces the audience to ponder the film's fundamental message.
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koala66
5.0 out of 5 stars un grand classique
Reviewed in Canada on August 5, 2019
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Pour les amoureux de cinéma européen, c'est un film à conserver
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oumebaba
5.0 out of 5 stars * VRAI CLASSIQUE *
Reviewed in France on October 30, 2014
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Revoir Pépé le Moko, c'est toujours du billard! GABIN Magnifique est remarquablement bien entouré, Lucas Gridoux en inspecteur doucereux étant particulièrement inoubliable; mais l'ensemble est dans la haute norme! et les dialogues de Jeanson fameux: Nous sommes ici en présence d'un film phare tout simplement, l'histoire elle même étant éternelle, de tout age et de toute époque ..

[La qualité de ce DVD récent est fort correcte, avec une image de belle facture et un son un peu "carré"(fluidité moyenne) mais très honnête; niveau bonus c'est bien pauvre hélas malgré ce qui nous est promis sur le site et qui est erroné... ATTENTION: Ce DVD ne comporte que la bande annonce en bonus vidéo!..]
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Dr René Codoni
5.0 out of 5 stars The Original, beware of imitations
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2012
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Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier, 1937, 94')

Directed by Julien Duvivier-Produced by Robert and Raymond Hakim. Written by Jacques Constant (adaptation), Henri Jeanson (dialogue), Julien Duvivier and Henri La Barthe (screen-play). Starring Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre, Fernand Charpin, Lucas Gridoux. Music by Vincent Scotto, Mohamed Ygerbuchen. Cinematography Marc Fossard, Jules Kruger. Editing by Marguerite Beaugé. Distributed by Arthur Mayer & Joseph Burstyn (USA, 1941), The Criterion Collection (Region 1 DVD, 2004).

I must have first seen Pépé le Moko in a film club in Europe circa 1960 (and many times since), and already then gave it five out of five stars. The reason that I am writing about it now is that in one of my recent dvd purchases of Femmes fatales from amazon, I found, a #2 of six movies with the following text: "Algiers by John Cromwell (1938, 98') - Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Chales Boyer, Gene Lockhart. An alluring tourist (Lamarr) steals the heart of an infamous master thief (Boyer), but puts his life at risk when his mistress betrays him (this seems a deliberate change from the original-RC) to the French authorities. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Actor and Best Cinematography". IMDb gives the following Ratings: 6.9/10 from 1,162 users - Reviews: 36 user | 7 critic. Producer is American "independent" Walter Wanger, a genuine "hotshot" of whom more will need to be said below.

Algiers, shot by shot, turned out to be a copy of Pépé le Moko in such a blatant way that I did not trust my eyes: Not only shots were copied, but angles and lighting - no wonder about the quality, Algiers was the work of China-born camaraman James Wong Howe, of whom Wikipedia says "James Wong Howe, ASC (Chinese 黃宗霑; pinyin: Huáng Zōngzhān) (1899-1976) was a Chinese American cinematographer who worked on over 130 films. A master at the use of shadow, he was one of the first to use deep-focus cinematography, photography in which both foreground and distant planes remain in focus. During the 1930s and 1940s he was one of the most sought after cinematographers in Hollywood. He was nominated for ten Academy Awards for cinematography, winning twice. Howe was judged to be one of history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild."

Regularly working for the likes of Samuel Fuller, Howard Hawks and David O Selznick, Howe was also the cinematographer in Drums of Fate (1923), The Thin Man (1934) - a comedy-mystery film directed by W S Van Dyke - based on the same name-novel by Dashiell Hammett, Fantasia (1940) - (uncredited) for the Philadelphia Orchestra sequences, Fritz Lang's famous Hangmen Also Die! (1943) - on a text by German émigré author Bertolt Brecht, Daniel Mann's The Rose Tattoo (1955) - after a Tennessee Williams
 play and screenplay, starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster, Alexander Mackendrick's film noir Sweet Smell of Success (1957), and the Kim Novak/Jimmy Stewart vehicle Bell, Book and Candle (1958).

So much about James Howe because his imitation is perfect - while other elements are only proxies: Identical dress did not turn the inimitable Charles Boyer into the equally inimitable Gabin, it worked more with the other males, while the Algiers-Females are more Hollywood-trimmed down to bras and fashion. Algiers is altogether too neat and clean, no messy corners or beggars, and while Hedy Lamarr is admittedly an attractive woman and good actress, she fits the bill less than her less known parallel in Pépé. But lets her two of amazon's Top Reviewers, who also bringup further aspects:

>>>Pepe le Moko is one of those films that seems to actually improve each time I see it, and not just because it set the mold for every exotic doomed Hollywood romance from Casablanca on. Jean Gabin is at his best here, capturing both the legend and the vulnerability of his criminal king of the Casbah, `ruling' in hell but longing for the heaven beyond its gates. The atmosphere is wonderful, the script sublime, Duvivier's direction superb, and the film so filled with memor-able moments that you can forgive the blandness of the leading lady (to be fair, the attraction is meant to be more the lure of the old life and places back home that Pepe once knew) and the over the top performance of Lucas Gridoux, overdoing the Uriah Heap routine as his nemesis Slimaine, potentially the film's most interesting character. <<< Trevor Willsmer (London) wrote on 6 May 2007 under the title "Without Pepe le Moko (his rating is 4 out five stars), Casablanca would still just be a name on a map".

>>>Between "Pepe" and "Casablanca," there was, of course, a third film, the 1938 Hollywood remake of Algiers [1938]. It starred the very beautiful Hedy Lamarr as the adventuress, in which role she does quite well, her beauty sure helped; and Charles Boyer in the Pepe role. Boyer was, of course, a very handsome Frenchman, but he quite lacked the sheer working class presence that Gabin brought to the role, and cannot, actually, carry the picture as Gabin did. Walter Wanger produced the American copy; it is said that he tried to destroy all copies of the French original, which, luckily for us he was not able to do. To compare the two versions of the story is certainly instructive. It is said that actors were hired for the American copy based upon their resemblance to the French originators of the roles, and that Wanger had a Movieola running at all times in the studio as he was filming, making virtually scene for scene copies of the original. You can, in fact, see that the backgrounds are frequently identical, the lighting just the same, the placement of the actors just the same, and the actors strongly resemble those in "Pepe."<<< Stephanie DePue (Carolina Beach) wrote on 1 July 2010 - her rating is five out of five stars - "A Magnetic Gabin IS Pepe le Moko".

The two new aspects are (1) to what length Hollywood went when it came to secure a project: Casablanca barely emerged from the onslaught, and (2) that Walter (Feucht-) Wanger, himself a jew, should have known that burning films (in secret) is about as effective as burning books in public - the Nazi operation (1933) was still recent!

195uk - Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier, 1937, 94') - The Original, beware of imitations - 20/10/2012
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Montana
5.0 out of 5 stars Großer Klassiker
Reviewed in Germany on April 2, 2010
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Was die technischen Mängel angeht, muss ich dem Vorrezensenten Recht geben. Die Unschärfen lenken manchmal ab, tragen jedoch wieder zu der herrlichen Patina des Films bei.
Ein großer, poetischer, stilsicher gedrehter Film, der trotz seines Alters eine zeitlose Anziehung besitzt.
Bis in die kleinsten Nebenrollen hervorragend besetzt. Und Jean Gabin gibt eine grandiose Vorstellung des Gangsters Pepe, der sich nichts mehr wünscht, als nach Hause zu kommen und dem Labyrinth des Casbah, in der er gefangen lebt, zu entfliehen.
Das Ensemble besteht aus lauter Figuren, die von der Zeit vergessen wurden und in der Casbah davon träumen, heimzukehren, zurückzukehren in ihr früheres Leben. Durch die Darstellung dieser Figuren entwickelt der Film eine starke, poetische Kraft, wie zum Beispiel in der Szene, in der einer ehemaligen Pariser Sängerin, beim Hören einer ihrer alten Schallplatten, die Tränen kommen.
Jedem der Film Noir liebt, gerne Gangsterfilme schaut, oder einfach ein Anhänger großen, alten Starkinos ist, dem sei dieser Film empfohlen. Und zwar wärmstens.
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Fermeli Mahieddine
5.0 out of 5 stars Mahi et non Fermeli Mahieddine,corrigez cette erreur.
Reviewed in France on June 16, 2018
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Bonjour,acheter ce dvd me rappelle la capitale algerienne ( Alger ) ou je suis ne,et surtout avec d'excellents acteurs,hélas disparus et bien qu'il soit en noir et blanc en le visionnant j'ai beaucoup aimé, d'ailleurs j'ai copié sur micro sd le film avec d'autres de Marcel Pagnol que je possède depuis plus de trois décennies en VHF,surtout et surtout c'est primordial pour moi posséder en DVD en noir et blanc tous les Pagnol avec comme acteurs ( Raimu,Fernandel, Charpin, Demasis,Delmont etc ... ),franchement je serai très content d'avoir en totalité tous les dvd d'avant guerre et surtout pas un,ne soit absent.Avant tout,j'espère avoir bien répondu en attente d'une réponse.
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