Police Python 357

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Police Python 357
Police Python 357.jpg
Directed by Alain Corneau
Starring
Cinematography Étienne Becker
Edited by Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte
Music by Georges Delerue
Release date
  • 1976 (1976)
LanguageFrench

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 ).

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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.


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