Gas-Oil

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Gas-Oil
Gas-Oil poster.jpg
Directed by Gilles Grangier
Written by Michel Audiard
Gilles Grangier
Based onDu raisin dans le gaz-oil by Georges Bayle
Produced by Jean-Paul Guibert
Starring Jean Gabin
Jeanne Moreau
Gaby Basset
Ginette Leclerc
Cinematography Pierre Montazel
Edited by Jacqueline Thiédot
Music by Henri Crolla
Production
company
Intermondia Films
Distributed by Rank
Release date
9 November 1955
Running time
92 minutes
CountryFrance
Language French

Gas-Oil is a 1955 French crime drama film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Gaby Basset and Ginette Leclerc. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location at a variety of places. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. It was one of a number of films portraying tough truck drivers made in the wake of the success of the 1953 film The Wages of Fear . [1] It was the first of many films in which Gabin appeared in written by his fellow Parisian Michel Audiard. [2]

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Synopsis

While driving home one night after meeting his girlfriend, trucker Jean Chape encounters a dead body lying in the road. He reports it the police but they suspect that he is responsible.

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  1. Frey p.131
  2. Harriss p.174

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