Pepe le Moko (Jean Gabin) is a well-known criminal mastermind who eludes the French police by hiding in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows he is safe in this labyrinthine netherworld, where he is ...

Now that the new-print revival has been a regular feature of the indie film-exhibition scene for nearly two decades, we've almost reached the point where all the truly worthy neglected films of the ...

Poised historically between German Expressionism and film noir but not quite in either camp, Julien Duvivier’s 1937 French gangster flick is a sumptuous wallow in melancholy machismo set against the ...

Two holy grails have come to home video in the past few weeks -- "Trouble in Paradise," the 1932 Ernst Lubitsch classic, and "Pepe Le Moko," the 1937 French film that became the basis for "Algiers," ...

Guidé par l'inspecteur Slimane, la police tente désespérément de mettre la main sur Pépé le Moko, un célèbre et dangereux malfaiteur caché quelque part dans la casbah d'Alger. Fuyant une nouvelle fois ...

Jean Gabin Alexis Moncorgé (born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé), known as Jean Gabin (17 May 1904 – 15 November 1976), was a French actor and singer. Considered a key figure in French cinema, he starred in ...