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American film producer Walter Wanger wasted little time in copying the French film Pepe Le Moko with his own tinsel town version a year later starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr making her American film debut. A carbon copy in nearly every aspect it is a reasonable but slightly inferior facsimile of the original.
Jewel thief La Moko (Boyer) hides out in the Casbah where he remains untouchable by authorities. He meets Gaby (Lamarr) with the intent of relieving her of her jewels but instead falls for her instead as the reminisce about Paris. Will Pepe's nostalgia and feelings for a dame lure him from his hideout?
Wanger even hijacks the actual prologue from the original and inserts it into Algiers as it follows the same route of "Le Moko with a slight adjustment in spots. Boyer gives an intense and passionate performance but is perhaps a little to suave amid his digs where the rough around the edges Gabin seems more at home.
As in the original, the roles of Slimane (Joseph Calleia), Ines (Sigrid Gurie) and Regis (Gene Lockhart) are excellently played but overall Algiers lacks the grittiness of the former as well as the more brutal outcome.
Jewel thief La Moko (Boyer) hides out in the Casbah where he remains untouchable by authorities. He meets Gaby (Lamarr) with the intent of relieving her of her jewels but instead falls for her instead as the reminisce about Paris. Will Pepe's nostalgia and feelings for a dame lure him from his hideout?
Wanger even hijacks the actual prologue from the original and inserts it into Algiers as it follows the same route of "Le Moko with a slight adjustment in spots. Boyer gives an intense and passionate performance but is perhaps a little to suave amid his digs where the rough around the edges Gabin seems more at home.
As in the original, the roles of Slimane (Joseph Calleia), Ines (Sigrid Gurie) and Regis (Gene Lockhart) are excellently played but overall Algiers lacks the grittiness of the former as well as the more brutal outcome.
No one is more infamous and respected in the Casbah than Pepe Le Moko ( Jean Gabin). The international jewel thief is a wanted man however and the serpentine paths make for an impenetrable maze that keeps Pepe safe from authorities. Unfortunately Pepe has his weak spots for diamonds, women and Paris that an inspector Slimane, (Lucas Gridoux) who has developed a relationship with Le Moko, will eventually trip him up. Enter Gaby (Mirielle Balin) and memories of Paris.
Gabin is a bit of French Bogart, capable of being cold and kind, cynical and sentimental. Dominating a rogues gallery with authority, his concession to romanticism spells his doom.
Julien Duvivier directs with a claustrophobic intensity, overcrowding nearly every scene with a variety of mugs and molls excellently played in particular by Gridoux, Line Noro as Ines and Fernand Charpin as Regis.
The cinematography of Jules Kruger and Marc Fossard does a fine job of making its way around corners and capturing the dramatic shadows of the famed but enigmatic location which in its own way shares top billing in this tragic romance/crime hybrid.
Gabin is a bit of French Bogart, capable of being cold and kind, cynical and sentimental. Dominating a rogues gallery with authority, his concession to romanticism spells his doom.
Julien Duvivier directs with a claustrophobic intensity, overcrowding nearly every scene with a variety of mugs and molls excellently played in particular by Gridoux, Line Noro as Ines and Fernand Charpin as Regis.
The cinematography of Jules Kruger and Marc Fossard does a fine job of making its way around corners and capturing the dramatic shadows of the famed but enigmatic location which in its own way shares top billing in this tragic romance/crime hybrid.
In his earliest starring role, Al Pacino acts as if he's been shot up with horse tranquilizer in Panic in Needle Park. One non-stop rant from start to finish of a New York heroin addict determined to game the system, it's a rather challenging watch to hang with him and his compatriots in a state of mostly nod heaven and the heebie-jeebies anxiousness of pursuing the score.
Helen (Kitty Winn) is a lost girl in a big city looking for attachment and not finding it from an aloof artist boyfriend (Raul Julia). A simple act of kindness attracts her to Bobby (Pacino) a heroin addict, scammer with a slight touch of charm that Helen becomes attracted to. The pair hook up and she gets hooked and it's all downhill from there.
Pacino's frenetic act grows wearisome after a period of time while Winn subtly takes over the picture with tragic consequence befalling her. She gives a quietly powerful performance of a young girl in descent.
Director Jerry Schatzberg does not sugar coat in anyway shooting mostly in the dark, all his characters whether on the side of right and wrong, surly, cynical and out for number one. He does a fine job of capturing dehumanizing NYC and its herd like congestion of noise and neon but he asks a lot for the viewer to hang with this crowd too long amid their degeneracy with redemption nowhere in sight. Panic is one dark and depressing ride.
Helen (Kitty Winn) is a lost girl in a big city looking for attachment and not finding it from an aloof artist boyfriend (Raul Julia). A simple act of kindness attracts her to Bobby (Pacino) a heroin addict, scammer with a slight touch of charm that Helen becomes attracted to. The pair hook up and she gets hooked and it's all downhill from there.
Pacino's frenetic act grows wearisome after a period of time while Winn subtly takes over the picture with tragic consequence befalling her. She gives a quietly powerful performance of a young girl in descent.
Director Jerry Schatzberg does not sugar coat in anyway shooting mostly in the dark, all his characters whether on the side of right and wrong, surly, cynical and out for number one. He does a fine job of capturing dehumanizing NYC and its herd like congestion of noise and neon but he asks a lot for the viewer to hang with this crowd too long amid their degeneracy with redemption nowhere in sight. Panic is one dark and depressing ride.