Police Python 357

Police Python 357
Directed by	Alain Corneau
Written by	Alain Corneau Daniel Boulanger
Based on	The Big Clock 1946 novel by Kenneth Fearing
Produced by	Albina du Boisrouvray
Starring	Yves Montand Simone Signoret
Cinematography	Étienne Becker
Edited by	Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte
Music by	Georges Delerue
Distributed by	Les Films La Boëtie
Release date	1976 (1976)
Running time	120 minutes
Language	French

Police Python 357 (also known as The Case Against Ferro) is a 1976 French crime-thriller film written and directed by Alain Corneau. ^{[1] [2]} It is an adaptation of the storyline of Kenneth Fearing's 1946 novel, The Big Clock , though with obvious stylistic influences from earlier 70's police thrillers like Dirty Harry (the film's opening sequence directly copies that of Magnum Force ).

Cast

• Yves Montand as Inspector Marc Ferrot
• François Périer as Police Commissioner Ganay
• Simone Signoret as Thérèse Ganay
• Stefania Sandrelli as Sylvia Leopardi
• Mathieu Carrière as Inspector Ménard
• Vadim Glowna as Inspector Acadie
• Claude Bertrand as Merchant of pigs
• Serge Marquand as "The Red"

References

1. Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN   8860736269.
2. Alison Smith (22 July 2005). French Cinema in the 1970s: The Echoes of May. Manchester University Press, 2005. ISBN   0719063418.

External links

• Police Python 357 at IMDb
• Police Python 357 at the TCM Movie Database