Raymond Pellegrin
8 titles
Filmography
8 results

OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
(1965)
Fear in the City
(1976)An unorthodox cop who plays by his own rules is called in after a massive jailbreak. He gets his hands dirty to apprehend a dangerous mob boss.

A Taste of Death
(1968)John Ireland, Andrea Giordana, Raymond Pellegrin, Betsy Bell. A bunch of nasty cattle thieves take over a small Colorado town. A retired sheriff decides to strap on his pistols and take matters into his own hands. The climactic battle takes place in the snow-covered Rockies, which is quite a change from most Euro-western locales. Color, 16mm.

Imperial Venus
(1962)The adult life of Paolina Bonaparte unfolds in marriages and scandal, revealing a willful yet impulsive woman shaped by Napoleon’s rise and fall.

Camorra
(1972)A young Neapolitan with grand ambitions begins working for an influential business person and finds himself in Camorra's criminal underworld.

Shoot First, Die Later
(1974)Luc Merenda is a highly regarded police detective who is taking syndicate money in exchange for departmental favors. His father, a simple man, also works for the department, but on a lower rung. A series of events leads the young detective to ask his father a favour and it doesn't take long for the latter to realize that his son is corrupted. Directed by Fernando Di Leo.
Le Deuxième Souffle
(1966)With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the suave inspector, Blot (Paul Meurisse), relentlessly seeking him. The implosive "Le Deuxième Souffle" captures the pathos, loneliness, and excitement of a life in the shadows with methodical suspense and harrowing authenticity, and contains one of the most thrilling heist sequences Melville ever shot.

A View from the Bridge
(1962)A longshoreman’s secret obsession with the teenage niece he raised leads to betrayal, violence, and a tragic reckoning in 1950s Red Hook, Brooklyn.