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Pépé le Moko is a 1937 French film directed by Julien Duvivier starring Jean Gabin, based on a novel of the same name by Henri La Barthe and with sets by Jacques Krauss. An example of the 1930s French movement known as poetic realism, it recounts the trapping of a gangster on the run in Algiers, who believes that he is safe from arrest in the Casbah.
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Some films are good and look even better when you realise they served as inspiration for many future classics. One such example is *Pépé le Moko*, the 1937 French crime drama directed by Julien Duvivier. The plot is based on the eponymous 1931 novel by Henri de la Barthe (published under the pen name “Detective Ashelbé”). The protagonist, played by Jean Gabin, is Pépé le Moko, a French bank robber who, after a serie…More