Gas-Oil
1955 film
- 9 November 1955 (1955-11-09)
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Gas-Oil is a 1955 French crime drama film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Gaby Basset and Ginette Leclerc. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location at a variety of places. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. It was one of a number of films portraying tough truck drivers made in the wake of the success of the 1953 film The Wages of Fear.[1] It was the first of many films in which Gabin appeared in written by his fellow Parisian Michel Audiard.[2]
Synopsis
While driving home one night after meeting his girlfriend, trucker Jean Chape encounters a dead body lying in the road. He reports it the police but they suspect that he is responsible.
Cast
- Jean Gabin as Jean Chape
- Jeanne Moreau as Alice
- Gaby Basset as Camille Serin
- Ginette Leclerc as Mme Scoppo
- Simone Berthier as Annie, une serveuse
- Charles Bouillaud as Le gendarme dactylographe
- Marcel Bozzuffi as Pierrot Ragondin
- Robert Dalban as Félix
- Albert Dinan as Émile Serin
- Gilbert Edard as Un commissaire
- Camille Guérini as Lucien Ragondin
- Guy Henry as Jojo, un routier
- Roger Hanin as René Schwob
- Bob Ingarao as Un gangster
- Jean Lefebvre as Le chauffeur de car
- Lisette Lebon as Mauricette, une serveuse
- Jacques Marin as Un gendarme au commissariat
- Germaine Michel as Maria Ragondin, la mère de Pierrot
- Albert Michel as Le facteur
- Marcel Pérès as Le barbier
- Jean-Marie Rivière as Un gangster
- Henri Crémieux as Le premier commissaire
References
Bibliography
- Frey, Hugo. Nationalism and the Cinema in France: Political Mythologies and Film Events, 1945-1995. Berghahn Books, 2014.
- Harriss, Joseph. Jean Gabin: The Actor Who Was France. McFarland, 2018.
External links
- Gas-Oil at IMDb
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Films by Michel Audiard
- Leontine (1968)
- A Golden Widow (1969)
- Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause ! (1970)
- How to Do Well When You're a Jerk and a Crybaby (1974)
- Mission in Tangier (1949)
- Beware of Blondes (1950)
- Darling Caroline (1951)
- Mr. Peek-a-Boo (1951)
- My Wife Is Formidable (1951)
- The Man in My Life (1952)
- Massacre in Lace (1952)
- She and Me (1952)
- The Long Teeth (1953)
- The Most Wanted Man (1953)
- The Three Musketeers (1953)
- April Fools' Day (1954)
- The Cheerful Squadron (1954)
- Love in a Hot Climate (1954)
- Quay of Blondes (1954)
- Gas-Oil (1955)
- Blood to the Head (1956)
- Mannequins of Paris (1956)
- Short Head (1956)
- Fugitive in Saigon (1957)
- Retour de manivelle (1957)
- Speaking of Murder (1957)
- Three Days to Live (1957)
- Le désordre et la nuit (1958)
- Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
- Les Misérables (1958)
- The Possessors (1958)
- Archimède le clochard (1959)
- Babette Goes to War (1959)
- Eyes of Love (1959)
- Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959)
- Rue des prairies (1959)
- Too Late to Love (1959)
- The Baron of the Locks (1960)
- Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
- The Old Guard (1960)
- The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
- Famous Love Affairs (1961)
- The Lions Are Loose (1961)
- The President (1961)
- Taxi for Tobruk (1961)
- The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
- Emile's Boat (1962)
- The Gentleman from Epsom (1962)
- A Monkey in Winter (1962)
- Any Number Can Win (1963)
- Carom Shots (1963)
- Les Tontons flingueurs (1963)
- The Trip to Biarritz (1963)
- La Chasse à l'homme (1964)
- The Great Spy Chase (1964)
- Greed in the Sun (1964)
- Salad by the Roots (1964)
- Une souris chez les hommes (1964)
- Les Bons Vivants (1965)
- Crime on a Summer Morning (1965)
- La Métamorphose des cloportes (1965)
- Tender Scoundrel (1966)
- All Mad About Him (1967)
- An Idiot in Paris (1967)
- Johnny Banco (1967)
- A Little Virtuous (1968)
- Pasha (1968)
- Under the Sign of the Bull (1969)
- Incorrigible (1975)
- Body of My Enemy (1976)
- The Big Operator (1976)
- Animal (1977)
- Death of a Corrupt Man (1977)
- Cop or Hood (1979)
- Les Égouts du paradis (1979)
- Le Guignolo (1980)
- Jupiter's Thigh (1980)
- Il lupo e l'agnello (1980)
- Garde à Vue (1981)
- The Professional (1981)
- Espion, lève-toi (1982)
- Deadly Circuit (1983)
- Le Marginal (1983)
- Dog Day (1984)
- Les Morfalous (1984)
- La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding (1985)
- He Died with His Eyes Open (1985)
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