Read More: 9 Must-See Dramas Set Against the Border "Bob le Flambeur" (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956) Before "Ocean’s Eleven" came "Bob le Flambeur" from the French master of noir, Jean-Pierre Melville. Roger Duchesne plays the eponymous high roller, a middle-aged gambler and ex-con whose elegance is so apparent that he has even won the respect of the town’s cops. For Bob, gambling is not a mere addiction but an essential state of existence. When it is revealed that the Deauville casino will hold 800 million francs on a given night, Bob, who's on a bad streak of luck, assembles a crack team of cons to carry out the heist. While the film yields chance encounters and unintended consequences fit for any gambling movie, the heist itself is perhaps less important than the setup, which is drawn out to maximum effect in the seedy underbelly of Montmartre’s chilly nighttime streets. A calm...
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