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Two Men in Manhattan is a french film of genre Drama directed by Yannick Andréi released in USA on 16 october 1959 with Pierre Grasset
Two Men in Manhattan (1959)
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Add to a movie listTwo Men in Manhattan (French: Deux hommes dans Manhattan) is a 1959 French film-noir directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The film stars Melville (who also wrote the screenplay) and Pierre Grasset as two French journalists who become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a disappeared United Nations diplomat.
Though Melville occasionally played bit parts in films by other directors (most notably as Parvulesco in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless), Two Men in Manhattan was his only starring role and the only time he acted in one of his own films (he served as the off-screen narrator in Bob le flambeur).
Synopsis
New York, le délégué français de l'ONU, Fevre-Berthier, héros de la Résistance, a disparu. Deux journalistes français se lancent à sa recherche sur les traces de ses maîtresses... Ils le retrouvent, mort, chez l'une d'elles, Miss Nelson. L'un, journaliste à l'AFP, sur ordre de son patron, veut étouffer le scandale ; ils déplacent le corps. L'autre veut faire de l'argent en vendant des photos à la presse à scandale : photo volée de la maîtresse sur son lit d'hôpital après sa tentative de suicide, photo arrangée du mort décoiffé et débraillé, mis en scène couché sur le lit de Miss Nelson.Actors
Pierre Grasset
(Pierre Delmas)
Jean-Pierre Melville
(Moreau)
Billy Beck
(Le Partenaire de Judith Nelson sur Scène)
Jean Lara
(Aubert)
Colette Fleury
(The Secretary)
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