The Movie:
Written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and based on a novel by Josepeh Kessel, 1969’s Army Of Darkness begins when a French man named Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) is hauled into an internment camp in the Nazi occupied France of 1942. Here he meets a few of his bunkmates and befriends a young communist who helps him plan an escape. Before that happens, however, he’s released. He winds up back in Marseille where he reconnects with members of The French Resistance whose first order of the day is to execute a member of their own group who, under pressure from German forces, essentially squealed on them. As the walls in the building as paper thin’ and there’s no good knife around, the young man is strangled, his body left covered on a mattress in the corner of the room.
From here we get to know some of Gerbier’s collaborators such as Le Masque (Claude Mann)…Read the entire review
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