The Gentleman from Epsom (1962)

October. 10,1962

6.1

| Comedy Crime

The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.

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Cast

Jean Gabin as Richard Briand-Charmery

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Louis de Funès as Gaspard Ripeux

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Madeleine Robinson as Maud

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Reviews

VeteranLight

1962/10/10

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Pluskylang

1962/10/11

Great Film overall

Chirphymium

1962/10/12

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Fatma Suarez

1962/10/13

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

tomquick

1962/10/14

I watch this from time to time; each time it's a little more entertaining. It's not as good as some of the other later Jean Gabin films - Touche Pas au Grisbi, or Traversee de Paris - but it's a lot more relaxed. Jean Gabin is a sad piece of gambling wreckage, living from horserace to horserace by bullying his clientele to take shoddy tips. His pride and bluster are still intact, though, and what baldfaced lies he gets away with! The snapshot views of 1962 Paris are nice too - the Bois de Boulogne walkers, French horseracing, even a woman learning to cook pheasant from a TV show (and I thought that "la bonne cuisine" was a French genetic trait.....).