Deux hommes dans Manhattan
Jean-Pierre Melville
Manhattan. Moreau, an AFP journalist, is sent by his editor, Rouvier, to find Fèvre-Berthier, a French delegate to the UN who seems to have disappeared. Trying to find a trail, he visits a photo-journalist called Delmas. Using three photos of the missing diplomat, pictured with three different women, he found at his home, Moreau starts investigating decides to carry out his investigation...
With : Pierre Grasset, Jean-Pierre Melville, Christiane Eudes, Ginger Hall
Screenplay : Jean-Pierre Melville
Image : Nicolas Hayer, Jean-Pierre Melville
Sound : Jacques Gallois, Jacques Carrère
Editing : Monique Bonnot
Decors : Daniel Guéret
Screenplay : Jean-Pierre Melville
Image : Nicolas Hayer, Jean-Pierre Melville
Sound : Jacques Gallois, Jacques Carrère
Editing : Monique Bonnot
Decors : Daniel Guéret
Production : Belfort Film, Alter Films
Distribution: Gaumont
Distribution: Gaumont
After Bob le Flambeur (Fever Heat) Jean-Pierre Melville, obsessed by John Huston's Asphalt Jungle, imagined a plot with an American setting. Instead of creating sets in the studio, he decided to go and shoot in the States for the first time with a small crew and also to act himself. "During the shooting of Deux hommes dans Manhattan (Two Men in Manhattan) we were totally improvising, in the middle of Broadway. One evening, we were in a very dark street and we saw a brightly lit bar. We went in very discretely and he told me to order a scotch, take the phone, just say anything and leave. I did it, paid, left, and the barman didn't notice anything. Melville said: ‘That's good, we'll do it again, but stay a bit longer this time'. So I started again, the scotch, the telephone. This time the guy looked at me dumbstruck, he must have thought I was crazy..." (Pierre Grasset).