Pépé le Moko

Infobox_Film
name = Pépé le Moko

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imdb_id = 0029453
producer = Raymond Hakim
Robert Hakim
director = Julien Duvivier
writer = Jacques Constant (adaptation)
Henri Jeanson (dialogue)
Julien Duvivier (screenplay)
Henri La Barthe (screenplay)
starring = Jean Gabin
Line Noro
Mireille Balin
music = Vincent Scotto
Mohamed Ygerbuchen
cinematography = Marc Fossard
Jules Kruger
editing = Marguerite Beaugé
distributor = Arthur Mayer & Joseph Burstyn (USA, 1941)
The Criterion Collection (Region 1 DVD, 2004)
released = flagicon|France 28 January, 1937
flagicon|USA 3 March, 1941
runtime = 94 min.
amg_id = 1:37686
language = French

"Pépé le Moko" is a 1937 film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Jean Gabin. It depicts an infamous gangster, Pépé le Moko ('Moko' is slang for a man from Marseilles) who tries to escape the police by hiding in the casbah of the city of Algiers.

The film is based on Henri La Barthe's novel of the same name; La Barthe contributed to the screenplay under the pseudonym 'Détective Ashelbé'.

"Pépé le Moko" is an example of the 1930s French movement known as poetic realism, which combines gritty realism with occasional flashes of unusual cinematic tricks. The film is often seen as an early precursor of "film noir".

The film was remade in America in 1938 as "Algiers", starring Hedy Lamarr and Charles Boyer, and again in 1948 as "Casbah", a musical starring Tony Martin, Marta Toren, Yvonne de Carlo, and Peter Lorre.

External links

*imdb title|id=0029453|title=Pépé le Moko
* [http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=172&eid=262&section=essay Criterion Collection essay by Michael Atkinson]
*" [http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/pepelemoko Pépé le Moko] " at Metacritic