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  • Title: Pepe Le Moko (Criterion #172) / Remembering Jean Gabin (excerpt) / Jeune de la Vieille
  • Summary: A French gangster lives in the Algerian casbah where the police can't get him, but love draws him out.
  • Director: Julien Duvivier
  • Cast: André Cailloux, Louis De Santis, Roger Garand, Micheline Guérin, Paul Hébert, Yves Létourneau, Robert Rivard, Carmen Tremblay
  • Year: 1937
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  • Format: DVD
  • Relation: Casbah, Casablanca, Morocco
  • Language: French with English subtitles
  • Country: France
  • Comments: The DVD includes an interview with the director Julien Duvivier, a 34 minute excerpt from the 1978 documentary "Remembering Jean Gabin," excerpts from the BFI Classics study of the film, a 1962 interview with Julien Duvivier ("Jeune de la Vieille"), a study of Pepe le Moko's influence on popular culture and a comparison with the remake "Algiers," an essay by Michael Atkinson and the theatrical trailer. Remade as "Algiers" (Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamar, 1938) and "Casbah" (Tony Curtis, Yvonne De Carlo, 1948).
  • Collection: Drama