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Henri Verneuil in one of their best works!
"Any Number Can Win" deserves better...
Good movie, bad DVD soundprint

Any Number Can Win
Starring: Jean Gabin , Alain Delon , Viviane Romance , Carla Marlier , and Maurice Biraud
Director: Henri Verneuil
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 6305761000
Release Date: 2000-02-29

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The classic meets the cool when dapper Jean Gabin teams up with smoldering matinee idol Alain Delon in Henri Verneuil's 1962 caper film Any Number Can Win. White-haired Gabin carries decades of French crime films with him as the career criminal who shuffles home from a five-year prison stretch and finds himself a stranger among the new high-rise apartments that have sprung up around his cozy old cottage. Aging delinquent Delon (who looks as if he stepped out of the road show of Grease under his slick hair and black leather jacket) becomes his unlikely partner in a scheme to knock off the richest casino on the Mediterranean coast, the youthful brawn to Gabin's experience and calculation. Posing as rich high rollers, they scope out the joint, and Delon woos a leggy Swedish dancer in hot-blooded courtship, a shot of sex that slows the plot but provides its own small charms thanks to Verneuil's modern continental frankness and Delon's cocky charm. It's all part of the deliberate, precise groundwork laid for the heist, a masterfully realized sequence of calm, clean professionalism. The twist and the grueling tension are saved for the inspired denouement, a delicious set piece of ironic understatement. The swinging rock & roll score and handsome black-and-white widescreen photography are tasty flourishes to this tightly scripted, economically directed crime classic. --Sean Axmaker

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One last heist for a lifetime! Charles has just been released after a five-year sentence and is determined to try an audacious theft before ending his dangerous career. He needs a young accomplice and finds him in Francis, an ex-con looking for a big score as well. Charles obtains the blueprints for a casino in Cannes from which he discovers a difficult, but possible way to gain access to the vault. Francis will have to crawl through an air conditioning duct and break into the elevator, which is the only way into the basement vault, holding up the cashier at exactly the right moment. The night of the heist arrives and everything works out as planned--almost.

Customer Reviews:

Henri Verneuil in one of their best works!.......2004-06-22

Verneuil was a gifted french director and obviously he couldn't escape from the New Wave influence. Sooner or later he should make a film who woul express that sense of hopeless and disturbing underground bits of fate.
In this bitter movie about two enchanting thieves Delon and Gabin ; they have a smart plan : to steal a casino in the famous blue coast.
Everything seems under control but!
The smart script carries us to an unexpected and bitter ending.
Gabin as always stating why he was the greatest and most complete french actor in the XX century.
Fine script and dialogues.
A must in your collection!

"Any Number Can Win" deserves better..........2002-06-06

I have to agree about the disappointing quality of this Image DVD. Not only has Image used a mediocre print to make the transfer, they've also used an edited version of the film. It originally ran 118 min., not the 103 that this print runs. Another video company came out with a nice letterboxed vhs of this film a few years back (under its alternate title "The Big Grab"), and they had the smarts to use the full-length version. Too bad Image couldn't do the same... especially since there's some pretty nice stuff to see in those missing 15 minutes. (BTW, like some other foreign films on DVD, this one seems just a bit speeded up or time-condensed, which probably means it was a PAL to NSTC transfer.)

Good movie, bad DVD soundprint.......2000-08-18

Nothing wrong with the movie: it might be a little weak on character analysis and plot realism, but it is fun and gripping all the way, and soooo 1960s....! The dialogue is the best part ( pure Michel Audiard: you learn French slang a mile a minute!)and both Jean Gabin and Alain Delon sparkle. BUT: the sound of this DVD has a few problem, with background noises at time as if picked up by bits and pieces from different versions of the movie. I paid full price (and above, as it is a foreign item) for this DVD: where is the DVD quality I am entitled to expect ? What a pity...

Melodie en sous-sol / Any Number Can Win - by Henri Verneuil (Russian Import - PAL DVD)

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Melodie en sous-sol / Any Number Can Win - by Henri Verneuil (Russian Import - PAL DVD)
Starring: Jean Gabin , Alain Delon , Viviane Romance , Carla Marlier , and Maurice Biraud
Director: Henri Verneuil
Manufacturer: Film Prestige
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000J0PBIW

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NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES!!! Brand new and sealed, region free, Russian PAL DVD (not playable on standard US DVD players). Available audio tracks: original DD 5.0 FRENCH & DD 5.0 RUSSIAN (voice-over). ATTENTION: This is a PAL/Region free DVD. PAL is European video standard which WILL NOT play on regular R1 DVD player (multisystem PAL/NTSC compatible DVD player required). Please, get familiar with all details about DVD video standards and region coding to avoid any misunderstandings ............................................................SYNOPSIS: Jean Gabin plays Charles, an aging gangster, newly released from prison. In fine Bogart tradition, the unrepentant Charles immediately sets to work planning a major casino heist in Cannes. His go-between for this endeavor is a chorus girl, whom Charles's associate Francis (Alain Delon) beds in order to win her confidence. This rapidly-paced suspenser was based on a novel by John Trinian. When first distributed in the US, the film travelled under the title Any Number Can Win.

Alain Delon - The Collection - 3 DVD Vol. 2 - Any Number Can Win / The Sicilian Clan / Scorpio

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Alain Delon - The Collection - 3 DVD Vol. 2 - Any Number Can Win / The Sicilian Clan / Scorpio

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* 3 of the best Alain Delon's movies on DVD.

ASIN: B000M931DM

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Alain Delon - The Collection (3 DVD). Vol.2: Any Number Can Win / The Sicilian Clan / Scorpio

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Any Number Can Win

Manufacturer: Vanguard Cinema
ProductGroup: Video
Binding: VHS Tape

Average customer rating:

Henri Verneuil in one of their best works!
"Any Number Can Win" deserves better...
Good movie, bad DVD soundprint

Any Number Can Win
Starring: Jean Gabin , Alain Delon , Viviane Romance , Carla Marlier , and Maurice Biraud
Director: Henri Verneuil
Manufacturer: Vanguard Cinema
ProductGroup: Video
Binding: VHS Tape

Carmet, Jean | ( C ) | Actors & Actresses | VHS | Video

Delon, Alain | ( D ) | Actors & Actresses | VHS | Video

Gabin, Jean | ( G ) | Actors & Actresses | VHS | Video

Romance, Viviane | ( R ) | Actors & Actresses | VHS | Video

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Purple Noon
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ASIN: B000051S5U
Release Date: 2001-01-02

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Customer Reviews:

Henri Verneuil in one of their best works!.......2004-06-22

"Any Number Can Win" deserves better..........2002-06-06

Good movie, bad DVD soundprint.......2000-08-18

Average customer rating:

Henri Verneuil in one of their best works!
"Any Number Can Win" deserves better...
Good movie, bad DVD soundprint

Any Number Can Win [Region 2]
Starring: Jean Gabin , Alain Delon , Viviane Romance , Carla Marlier , and Maurice Biraud
Director: Henri Verneuil
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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The Sicilian Clan / Le Clan Des Siciliens - English audio (Russian release)
Purple Noon
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ASIN: B00004VY8H

Amazon.com

Customer Reviews:

Henri Verneuil in one of their best works!.......2004-06-22

"Any Number Can Win" deserves better..........2002-06-06

Good movie, bad DVD soundprint.......2000-08-18

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