Police Python 357

Police Python 357
Police Python 357
Directed by	Alain Corneau
Cinematography	Étienne Becker
Edited by	Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte
Music by	Georges Delerue
Release date	1976;
Language	French

Police Python 357 (also known as The Case Against Ferro) is a 1976 French crime-thriller film written and directed by Alain Corneau.^[1]^[2] It is an adaptation of the storyline of Kenneth Fearing's 1946 novel, The Big Clock, though with obvious stylistic influences from earlier 70's police thrillers like Dirty Harry (the film's opening sequence directly copies that of Magnum Force).

Cast[edit]

Yves Montand as Inspector Marc Ferrot
François Périer as Police Commissioner Ganay
Simone Signoret as Thérèse Ganay
Stefania Sandrelli as Sylvia Leopardi
Mathieu Carrière as Inspector Ménard
Vadim Glowna as Inspector Abadie
Claude Bertrand as Merchant of pigs
Serge Marquand as "The Red"

References[edit]

^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
^ Alison Smith (22 July 2005). French Cinema in the 1970s: The Echoes of May. Manchester University Press, 2005. ISBN 0719063418.

External links[edit]

Police Python 357 at IMDb

This article about a 1970s thriller film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[Mereghetti-1] Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.

[Merffti-2] Alison Smith (22 July 2005). French Cinema in the 1970s: The Echoes of May. Manchester University Press, 2005. ISBN 0719063418.

[1]

[2]