Jacques Becker direct Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, and Claude Dauphin in this noir-ish romance where two gangsters and an ex-con carpenter all fall for the same beautiful golden-haired woman in Belle Époque Paris.

Takes the crime milieu and explore love in it. Signoret and Reggiani have instant sexual chemistry together. The underworld only knows how to take. It ends in beautiful tragedy. Almost gothic, almost hardboiled.

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Perfect Double Bill: Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (1954)