Le Samouraï
1967 neo-noir crime film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Le Samouraï (French pronunciation: [lə sa.mu.ʁa.i]; lit. 'The Samurai'), is a 1967 neo-noir crime thriller film[7] written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starring Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier. A Franco-Italian production, it depicts the intersecting paths of a professional hitman (Delon) trying to find out who hired him for a job and then tried to have him killed, and the Parisian commissaire (Périer) trying to catch him.
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Directed by | Jean-Pierre Melville |
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Cinematography | Henri Decaë |
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Music by | François de Roubaix |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
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Language | French |
Box office | 1.9 million admissions (France)[4] $218,495 (US re-release)[5][6] |
The film was released on 25 October 1967, and it sold over 1.9 million tickets in France.[8] It received positive reviews, with particular praise given to Melville's screenwriting and atmospheric direction, and Delon's performance. An English-dubbed version of the film was released in the U.S. in 1972 as The Godson, a title selected to capitalize on the recent success of The Godfather.