PéPé LE MOKO

'''Pépé le Moko''' is a 1937 film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Jean Gabin. It depicts an infamous gangster, Pépé le Moko ('Moko' is slang for a man from Marseilles) who tries to escape the police by hiding in the casbah of the city of Algiers.
The film is based on Henri La Barthe's novel of the same name; La Barthe contributed to the screenplay under the pseudonym 'Détective Ashelbé'.
''Pépé le Moko'' is an example of the 1930s French movement known as poetic realism, which combines gritty realism with occasional flashes of unusual cinematic tricks. The film is often seen as an early precursor of ''film noir''.
The film was remade in America in 1938 as ''Algiers'', starring Hedy Lamarr and Charles Boyer.

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★ Criterion Collection essay by Michael Atkinson