Once a renowned criminal Bob the Gambler now contents himself with gambling frequenting casinos in the shady districts of Paris. He is convinced his gangster days are over - until he meets up with an old accomplice who has news which interests him. The casino at Deauville has a safe which is loaded with several hundred million francs. Short of cash Bob decides to plan one last great robbery. He recruits a number of former fellow criminals and plans the theft to the greatest detail. Unfortunately on the day of the robbery things rapidly begin to go wrong. Bob's... luck appears to have taken an unexpected turn - for the better. [show more]
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Jean-Pierre Melville directs this pre-New Wave classic, chronicling a raid on a Parisian casino. Bob the Gambler (Roger Duchesne) reverts to his old trade as a bank robber after several bad rolls of the dice. However, his plans to rip off a casino are thrown into chaos by an unforeseen murder and the duplicitous scheming of his criminal colleagues.
A down-on-his-luck former gangster spends his days gambling in casinos. With his glory days behind him, Bob has convinced himself that his time as a master criminal is over: That is until an old acquaintance resurfaces with a plan to rob one of the countrys largest casinos. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (LE SAMOURAI, LE CERCLE ROUGE) and exhibiting all his usual flare, BOB LE FLAMEUR was later remade by Neil Jordan as THE GOOD THIEF.
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