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| Jean Gabin: The World's
Coolest Movie Star
This series is an Egyptian Theatre Exclusive!
What can one say about French superstar Jean Gabin? If
he’s not the "world’s coolest movie star," as proclaimed by the title
of Charles Zigman’s entertaining and endlessly illuminating new biography of the
actor (in two mammoth volumes!), he has to be up there in at least the top five.
Gabin’s appeal, like that of Bogart, his American counterpart, relies on a quiet,
unpretentious toughness, an unassailable integrity, a cynical – but not nasty –
sense of humor and a classy, nonjudgmental wisdom about people and the ways of the world.
He projects his persona effortlessly but forcefully from the screen -- the world-weariness
and resigned, wisecracking fatalism of a wide-ranging array of characters, from tragic
drifter to insightful patriarch. Join us for these Gabin gems, including the hard-to-see THE
SICILIAN CLAN (in a new 35mm print!), the long-unavailable MOONTIDE, the
ultra-rare HOUSE ON THE WATERFRONT and the French crime classic GRISBI.
Author Charles Zigman will be signing and selling his new biography, World’s
Coolest Movie Star: The Complete 95 Films (and Legend) of Jean Gabin, each night
preceding the screenings.
Saturday, September 6 – 7:30 PM
Jean Gabin Double Feature:
Rare! New 35mm Print! THE SICILIAN CLAN (LE CLAN DES SICILIENS), 1969, 20th Century
Fox, 118 min. Expatriate Sicilian mobster Jean Gabin and his family shelter
homicidal, lone-wolf jewel thief Alain Delon after his daring escape from a prison
van. Delon proposes a multimillion-dollar jewel heist to Gabin that is fraught with
danger, but the semi-retired patriarch signs on when he decides it will allow him to
retire home to Sicily all the faster. But no one counts on dogged police inspector Lino
Ventura (CLASSE TOUS RISQUES, SECOND BREATH) on Delon’s trail. Ventura is
extra-surly from trying to kick cigarettes and channels all his frustrations into nabbing
Delon and his accomplices. Director Henri Verneuil collaborated with Gabin and
Delon on another heist picture ANY NUMBER CAN WIN (MELODIE EN SOUS-SOL) in 1963. Ennio
Morricone provides another memorable score. Dubbed-in-English version. NOT ON DVD View Trailer
Rare! MOONTIDE¸ 1942, 20th Century Fox, 94 min. In the mythical
California port of San Pablo (standing in for San Pedro), hard-drinking longshoreman Bobo
(Jean Gabin) becomes convinced by blackmailing comrade Tiny (Thomas Mitchell)
that he has killed a man in an alcoholic blackout. Despairing Bobo simultaneously falls in
love when he saves suicidal waitress Anna (Ida Lupino) from trying to drown
herself. Gabin and Lupino are electric together, generating transcendental romantic
chemistry, and Claude Rains as a barroom philosopher prefigures his chivalrous
Frenchman in CASABLANCA.This was one of two films that Gabin made in America. Director Archie
Mayo took over when original director Fritz Lang quit a few days into production.
Charles G. Clarke’s luminous black-and-white cinematography was Oscar-nominated.
Original English-language version. Booksigning preceding the
screening at 6:30 PM with Charles Zigman, author of The World's Coolest Movie Star: The
Complete 95 Films (and Legend) of Jean Gabin Vol. 1 & 2.
Sunday, September 7 – 7:30 PM
Jean Gabin Double Feature:
Ultra-Rare! HOUSE ON THE WATERFRONT (PORT DU DÉSIR), 1955, 94
min. Dir. Edmund T. Gréville (PRINCESS TAM-TAM). Jean Gabin is a
disillusioned tugboat captain with a wayward daughter. He becomes embroiled in a plot to
cover up a murder when tough young diver Henri Vidal is bribed by a gangster (Jean-Roger
Caussimon) to retrieve a
dead woman’s body from a sunken ship that is about to be salvaged. Co-starring Andrée
Debar, Edith Georges. In French with English subtitles. NOT
ON DVD
GRISBI (TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI) , 1954, Rialto Pictures, 88
min. Dir. Jacques Becker (CASQUE D’OR, LE TROU). Aging gangster Jean Gabin
is sitting on a fortune in gold from a perfect heist – but sleazeball Lino Ventura
decides he wants in on the action, with the help of double-crossing chorus girl, Jeanne
Moreau. This exquisite noir was passed over by the Cannes Film Festival because
"it gave the wrong idea of French cinema" – it went on to become a huge hit
and inspired a wave of crack crime films like BOB LE FLAMBEUR and RIFIFI. In French with
English subtitles. Booksigning preceding the screening at 6:30
PM with Charles Zigman, author of The World's Coolest Movie Star: The Complete 95 Films
(and Legend) of Jean Gabin Vol. 1 & 2. View Trailer
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