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""Jef Costello, un tueur à gages, reçoit pour mission de liquider le patron d'une boîte de jazz. En dépit d'un alibi parfait, un commissaire de police se lance à ses trousses." (Source : jaquette)."
""Jef "Le Samouraï", est un tueur professionnel, méthodique, froid et efficace, vêtu d'un trench-coat au col relevé et coiffé d'un chapeau... ... Un superbe film policier dans un monde glacé et implacable, la solitude des maudits, un rôle superbe pour Alain Delon...Un grand Melville souvent copié..."
"A thriller about a professional killer who was shot dead in a night club."
"A steely-eyed and enigmatic hitman is hired to do away with the boss of a nightclub, which places him under total surveillance by police. At the same time, he discovers that the man he is working for has marked him for death. His faultless planning of the hit and concrete alibi make it impossible for police to charge him. However, when he falls in love with a key witness, he becomes vulnerable."
"A hired assassin who lives by a code of self-sufficiency betrays himself by falling in love with the woman who witnessed his murder of a night-club owner. [c.f. Halliwell's]."
"A steely-eyed and enigmatic hitman is hired to do away with the boss of a nightclub, which places him under total surveillance by police. At the same time, he discovers that the man he is working for has marked him for death."
"Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal."
"Un tueur à gages, Jef Costello, doit se garder à la fois de la police et du milieu."
"Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nighclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal."
"A steely-eyed and enigmatic hitman is hired to do away with the boss of a nightclub, which places him under total surveillance by police. At the same time, he discovers that the man he is working for has marked him for death."
"Hitman Jeff Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he's seen by witnesses. His efforts to provide himself with an alibi fail and more and more he gets driven into a corner."
"Entre otras cualidades, "Le samouraï" es un poema desgarrador del hombre solo. Es también, y ante todo, una película policiaca. Este "samurai", Jeff Costello, no es sino un asesino a sueldo del hampa parisina. Engañado por sus socios, tiene que defenderse en dos frentes: contra la policía y contra sus cómplices. Se organiza entonces una implacable caza, todos contra un solo hombre. El héroe irrisorio de este combate nocturno triunfará. En la muerte, claro está. Una muerte deseada, organizada, como una apoteosis."
"Leading players: Alain Delon, Francois Perier, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Michel Boisrond."
"A steely hitman is hired to kill a nightclub owner, and discovers that the man he is working for has marked him for death."
"Hitman Jeff Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught ..."
"SUMMARY: 'When a stoic, icily professional assassin is witnessed leaving the scene of a nightclub "hit" by a barroom pianist who doesn't let on to the cops, he discovers that he's being set up for something worse than jail. New wave noir from Melville, the tough-guy darling of the "Cahiers du Cinema" crowd. Based on the novel "The Ronin" by Joan McLeod.' (www.rottentomatoes.com)"