Three Men to Kill

Trois hommes à abattre
Three Men to Kill
Directed by Jacques Deray
Produced by Alain Delon
Written by Jean-Patrick Manchette (novel)
Jacques Deray
Alain Delon
Christopher Franck
Starring Alain Delon
Dalila Di Lazzaro
Music by Claude Bolling
Cinematography Jean Tournier
Production
company
Antenne-2
Adel Productions
Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC)
Release date
 31 October 1980
Running time
 95 minutes
Country France
Language French
Box office $16.5 million[1]

Trois hommes à abattre (English: Three Men to Kill) is a French crime film released in 1980, directed by Jacques Deray, starring Alain Delon with Dalila Di Lazzaro. The screenplay is written by Jacques Deray, Alain Delon and Christopher Franck based on the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette.

The story is about Michel Gerfaut (Delon), charming professional card player who out of nowhere becomes involved in some retribution between weapon traders of high level.

The movie was a great boxoffice success.[2] Three Men to Kill is the first film of a group of popular movies released in the 1980s and starring Alain Delon, which share a visual and narrative style, followed by For a Cop's Hide (1981) and Le battant (1983).

Synopsis

Michel Gerfaut (Alain Delon) is a handsome middle-aged man who lives in Paris, France. He has a beautiful girlfriend and works as a professional poker player. One night, as he is on his way to yet another card game, he comes across a car accident. Noticing that the driver of the crashed car is still alive, he brings him to the hospital. A newspaper article later reveals that the man, who was actually a high-ranking functionary, has died, and that two of his colleagues were killed the same night (the titular three men to kill). The men were assassinated as they were about to blow the whistle on a deal involving faulty guided missiles.

Gerfaut is followed by two hitmen who saw him at the crash site and mistakenly assumed that he is a mercenary hired by other armament manufacturers to sabotage the deal. After several attempts on the lives of him and his girlfriend are made, Gerfaut flees and follows a series of clues that eventually lead him to the head of the conspiracy, an arms dealer named Emmerich. Emmerich doesn't believe Gerfaut's claims of innocence and becomes furious, causing himself a fatal heart attack. Emmerich's assistant then offers Gerfaut a job as his enforcer, but Gerfaut refuses and walks away, believing everything to be over.

The next day, Gerfaut and his girlfriend are seen having a walk in Paris where another pair of hitman ambushes and shoots Gerfaut.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Box office information for film at Box office story
  2. ↑ Trois hommes à abattre - film review


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