New on Blu-ray: HIT MAN / LA SCOUMOUNE (1972) Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale

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Product Description: In La scoumoune a.k.a Hit Man, 1930s mobster Roberto La Rocca (Jean-Paul Belmondo) moves to Marseille to avenge his pal Xavier (Michel Constantin), who has been framed by the local crime bosses. Rocca gets caught up in clashes between different gangs and as a result serves a long stretch in prison, where he plots his daring escape. Superstar Belmondo (Breathless) shares sizzling scenes with another icon of cool, Claudia Cardinale (The Pink Panther), in this Euro-crime classic written and directed by Jose Giovanni (Le trou, Classe tous risques) and featuring a wildly original soundtrack by François de Roubaix. This 1972 film was the second adaptation of Giovanni’s source novel. The first, 1961’s A Man Called Rocca, was directed by Jean Becker and starred Belmondo in the same role.

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New on Blu-ray: VERTIGO FOR A KILLER / VERTIGE POUR UN TUEUR (1970) Starring Marcel Bozzuffi & Sylva Koscina

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Product Description: 2023 HD Master by StudioCanal – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative! Marcel Bozzuffi (The French Connection), Sylva Koscina (Trapped by Fear) and Michel Constantin (Violent City) give perfectly hard-boiled performances in this Eurocrime gem directed by Jean-Pierre Desagnat (Les Étrangers, OSS 117: Double Agent). When hitman Marc (Bozzuffi) refuses to liquidate his friend René (Constantin), he becomes a target himself. In order to escape his former boss and his ruthless thugs, he seeks support from the sultry Sylvie Dussort (Koscina), who offers him shelter on the Riviera. What Marc does not know is that the lady has a hidden agenda. Swirling with Hitchcockian suspense and a Eurowestern score, Vertigo for a Killer (Vertige pour un tueur) delivers the neo-noir goods.

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New on Blu-ray: THE VULTURES / LES MORFALOUS (1984) Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo

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Product Description: April 1943. Tunisia, occupied by the Germans, is ravaged with warfare. A column of the Foreign Legion enters El Ksour, a city on the coast. Its mission is to retrieve six billion francs worth of gold ingots from the bank and convoy them to Sfax. But the enemy is waiting and when dawn strikes in the dead city, there are only a few French survivors—four “Morfalous,” or “Vultures.” The mission continues. But when Sergeant Augagneur (screen legend Jean-Paul Belmondo) feasts his eyes on the safe in the vault of the bank, he starts dreaming and scheming… Four survivors, six billion: one billion and a half each. Director Henri Verneuil (The Body of My Enemy) strikes gold with this French Kelly’s Heroes riff, with Belmondo (Le Professionnel) in peak wise-cracking, bone-cracking form. Sweepingly shot on location in Tunisia, The Vultures (a.k.a. Les Morfalous) also features the rugged Michel Constantin (La Scoumoune), dazzling Marie Laforêt (Cop or Hood) and an epic soundtrack by Georges Delerue (That Man from Rio).

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LAST KNOWN ADDRESS / DERNIER DOMICILE CONNU (1970) - Blu-ray Release of Crime Thriller Starring Lino Ventura & Marlene Jobert

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Product Description: French film greats Lino Ventura (Razzia sur la chnouf) and Marlène Jobert (Rider on the Rain) star in the gritty neo-noir gem, Last Known Address (Dernier domicile connu). Inspector Léonetti (Ventura), a tough, efficient Paris cop, has been exiled to a second-rate police station after being reprimanded. There he is given a partner, the young and beautiful Jeanne Dumas (Jobert). The duo are soon tasked with a very difficult mission: to find a man whose evidence is instrumental in convicting a master criminal. Their tenacity leads them through a maze of red herrings; meanwhile, they are pursued by an enigmatic gangster called Greg (Michel Constantin, Violent City). Written and directed by the famed crime-novelist/filmmaker José Giovanni (Classe tous risques, Le Deuxième souffle, Boomerang), Last Known Address is a taut, authentic police procedural highlighted by a propulsive musical score from Francois de Roubaix (Le Samouraï).

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