Le soleil des voyous / The Sun of the Outlaws / Action Man (1967)

A retired gangster enlists the help of an ex-US serviceman for one last job, the robbing of a bank. Things become complicated when other interested parties get wind of their plans

Director: Jean Delannoy
Cast: Jean Gabin, Robert Stack, Margaret Lee, Jean Topart, Walter Giller, Lucienne Bogaert, Georges Aminel, Albert Michel, Henri Coutet, Bernard Musson, Pierre Koulak, Mino Doro, Bob Ingarao, Carlo Nell, Pierre Moncorbier, Jo Dalat, Roger Fradet, Dominique Zardi, Suzanne Flon, Yves Barsacq, Antoine Baud, Paul Bisciglia, Bernard Charlan, Nicole Desailly, Luce Fabiole, Edouard Francomme, Marcel Gassouk, Alain Janey, Kempetian, Georges Lycan




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Originally titled Le Soleil des Voyous, Action Man teams two veteran international film stars: France's Jean Gabin and America's Robert Stack. Gabin plays an ex-criminal, now reformed and ensconced in a respectable executive job. Stack plays an unreconstituted crook who wants to inveigle Gabin into one last caper. The crime goes off like clockwork, but drug dealers who want a piece of the action kidnap Gabin's wife Suzanne Flon and hold her for ransom. Stack ends up sacrificing his own life to save those of Gabin and Flon. Based on a novel by J. M. Flynn Action Man is the sort of bread-and-butter fare that director Jean Delannoy, famed for his earlier spiritual classics La Symphonie Pastorale (1946), Le Jeux Sons Faits (1947) and Diary of a Country Priest (1950), dealt with in his twilight years. In certain gamier markets, Action Man was released as Leather and Nylon.
~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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