Angel's Leap
– In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne..
In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne) has retired to a Thailand plantation with an Asian wife and child. Back in Marseilles, however, because a no-holds-barred gang war has broken out, Louis' large collateral family is wiped out, and he is family are slated for destruction.
29 Sep 1971
French
Yves Boisset
Yves Boisset (adaptation), Richard Winckler (adaptation), Bernard-Paul Lallier (novel), Claude Veillot (dialogue)
Jean Yanne, Senta Berger, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Pellegrin
The electoral battle is raging in Marseilles. The Corsican Clan, under the rule of the Orsini family, is being challenged by the next generation, younger gangsters who support the candidature of Forestier, an estate promoter. To ensure his election and to get his hands on the city, Forestier stops at nothing and has the Orsini brothers liquidated one by one. During this clearing operation, a little girl is accidentally shot. Her father, Louis Orsini, a former mercenary, decides to take revenge...