Une fille et des fusils

Une fille et des fusils is a 1965 French film directed by Claude Lelouch. It is also known in the English-speaking world as The Decadent Influence or To Be a Crook.[1][2]

Une fille et des fusils
Directed byClaude Lelouch
Written byClaude Lelouch
Pierre Uytterhoeven
Produced byClaude Lelouch
Felix C. Ziffer
StarringJean-Pierre Kalfon
Amidou
CinematographyJean Collomb
Edited byClaude Barrois
Music byPierre Vassiliu
Release date
  • 2 June 1965 (1965-06-02) (France)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Plot

Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn more money from crime than they can from work. The film follows their training at the first "crime school", as well as their following deeds.

Cast

Background

  • With the film becoming Lelouch's first commercial success, he attempted to destroy all copies and negatives of his previous films. Lelouche failed to find a distributor for his next film, Les grands moments, and he then destroyed that film as well.
  • Lelouch recycled some ideas from for Une fille et des fusils film in his later works, such as the shooting of bottles in Le bon et les méchants and the economic catastrophes in L'aventure, c'est l'aventure.

References

  1. "The Decadent Influence". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  2. Martin, James Michael (1967-10-01). "Une fille et des Fusils". Film Quarterly. 21 (1): 60. doi:10.2307/1211041. JSTOR 1211041.
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