Any Number Can Win (film)
- Jean Gabin: Charles
- Alain Delon: Francis Verlot
- Claude Cerval: Commissioner
- Viviane Romance: Ginette
- Henri Virlogeux: Mario
- Jean Carmet: Barman
- José Luis de Vilallonga: Monsieur Grimp
- Dora Doll: Countess Doublianoff
Silent as the Night (Original Title: Mélodie en sous -sol, double " melody in the background " ) is a French crime film category heist movie by Henri Verneuil 's 1963 film is about two gangsters rob the casino in Cannes.. The story is based on the novel The Big grave, the Zekial Marko 1960 published under the pseudonym " John Trinian's ". The film stars Jean Gabin and Alain Delon.
The film was shown from March 19, 1963 in France. In German cinemas he ran for 23 August 1963.
Action
Charles has just served a long prison sentence, and he already planning the next coup: He wants to raid the casino "Palm Beach" in Cannes. Because his partner retires for health reasons from the project, Charles hired his former cellmates Francis as accomplices. Together, they plan the robbery, which provides, first, that Francis infiltrates into the society of "Palm Beach" to have easier access to the money chamber of the house.
The plan succeeds. Charles and Francis facilitate the casino to a large amount of money they create them in two travel bags and temporarily stored overnight in a locker room near the beach. When they want to pick up the bags the next morning, they are surprised by the police, the investigation into the hiring pool to which the locker room belongs. Because Francis with the bags can not escape, he buried them quietly in the swimming pool. But the treacherous hideout makes him a spanner in the works: Underwater open the bags, and all bills soon swim at the water surface. Whether Charles and Francis to escape without their booty to the police, remains open.
Background
The black and white film was shot on 35 mm and has an aspect ratio of 2.35:1. There are two different versions section, since those was cut for the American market to 103 minutes.
Jean Gabin and Alain Delon turned for the first time a movie together. In later years, she appeared in The Clan of the Sicilians (1969) and terminal scaffold (1973 ) again together.
The American Movie million robbery in San Francisco ( 1965), in which once again Alain Delon plays the main role, is also based on a novel by Zekial Marko.
Reviews
" Exciting and cunning " judge the lexicon of international film and also highlights the " amusing conclusion Pointe " of the film produced. Similarly, Bosley Crowther writes in the New York Times, while he draws parallels to the French film noir Rififi also. The mirror is one silent as the night the kind of thriller, " it disregards more on the nerves of the audience as to their powers of deduction ".
When you lift the prism " lovingly observed contrast between the Paris suburban milieu and the fashionable luxury ambience of Cannes" out. Cinema holds the lead actor Gabin and Delon for " prohibited cool".
Awards
Silent as the night was one of five films that the National Board of Review for 1963 named as " best foreign films ." The following year he was also awarded as " Best Foreign Film " by Edgar Allan Poe Award and was nominated for " Best Foreign Film " award at the 21st Golden Globes.