Greed in the Sun

  • Jean -Paul Belmondo: Rocco
  • Lino Ventura: Hervé Marec
  • Reginald Kernan: Peter Frocht aka John Steiner, the mercenary
  • Bernard Blier: Mitch - Mitch
  • Andréa Parisy: Pepa
  • Gert Frobe: Castigliano
  • Anne -Marie Coffinet: Angèle Bameste
  • Doudou Babet: Khenouche
  • Pierre Mirat: Halibi
  • Henri Lambert: Robert
  • Pierre Collet: Employees of Castigliano
  • Christian Brocard
  • Paul Bonifas: Dr. Magnart
  • Jacky Blanchot
  • Louis Bugette: Orlando
  • Marcel Bernier

$ 100,000 in the sun ( original title: Cent mille dollars au soleil ) is a French-Italian adventure film directed by Henri Verneuil with Jean -Paul Belmondo and Lino Ventura in the lead roles. The film was presented at the International Film Festival of Cannes 1964.

Action

The freight forwarder Castigliano Steiner instructed to drive a new truck with a secret cargo. Steiner 's new in operation and is regarded with suspicion by the other employees. In the evening, Steiner goes out with Rocco, Marec and some colleagues. The next morning the truck is gone. Castigliano rages and commissioned Marec retrieve the truck. Rocco stole the truck and is equipped with Pepa go towards the border. A wild chase through deserts and areas with difficult starts.

Marec go with Steiner. When crossing a state turns out that Steiner is searched under the name Frocht. Steiner was the leader of a mercenary army in a coup. Rocco it succeeds several times to depend Marec. Mitch has to repeatedly help out Marec. After the truck by Rocco stops due to a fault, he is Marec and Steiner a trap. Rocco forces at gunpoint an exchange his defective truck with the roadworthy truck from Marec. Steiner wants to fight back against this and suffers a leg leading. Rocco leaves Marec and Steiner back into the desert. The charge wants Rocco sell for $ 100,000 to a fence.

With great effort succeeds Marec and Steiner to move to the next city. By chance encounters Marec Rocco in an establishment. It comes to a wild brawl between the two. As both can no longer admits Rocco that he had appeared at the agreed meeting point with the fence. However, the fence was not present. When he came back to the hotel, the truck was gone with his girlfriend Pepa.

Background

The screenplay is based on the novel Nous n'irons pas en Nigéria by Claude Veillot. Several scenes were shot in the city of Ouarzazate. The final scene was filmed at the Bahia Palace in Marrakech.

In the film, only the truck brand Berliet occur.

Reviews

The lexicon of the International film was: " An amusing adventure film, which dominates with its brilliant staging and an excellent protagonist, the majority of the genre. "

Prism wrote: " The exciting and amusing adventure strip by Henri Verneuil is a successful trivial form of Henri -Georges Clouzot's classic The Wages of Fear. Besides the excellent staging it offers France's top stars Jean -Paul Belmondo and Lino Ventura, which after the Panther is rushed (1959 ) for the second and last time met in front of the camera and in front of the stunning backdrop of Africa a competition with a difference. provide Exciting: Andréa Parisy as Pepa ".

Honorable and disapproving words is the Evangelical movie watchers: " An adventure film, as he is in the book, a stunning truck chase in North Africa, in which a thief is pursued with contraband. Because of the unreflective account of the life of notorious outlaws, we can not say yes to this technically and theatrically brilliant work. "

Awards

The film was nominated for the Golden Palm at the International Film Festival of Cannes 1964.

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