"A great crime film, which is very difficult to achieve. [...] you can cling to all the clichés, but it's a great crime film that's very difficult to make. Well, we read crime novels, we talk about them, but we read them and there's nothing there, you know what I mean? It's thin, you can't attract people with that kind of thing anymore, you need something massive and compact that carries weight."
Lino Ventura

January 1, 1970