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'Gas-Oil' is a 1955 French crime drama film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Gaby Basset and Ginette Leclerc. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location at a variety of places. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. It was one of a number of films portraying tough truck drivers made in the wake of the success of the 1953 film 'The Wages of Fear'.Frey p.131 It was the first of many films in which Gabin appeared in written by his fellow Parisian Michel Audiard.Harriss p.174

Synopsis



While driving home one night after meeting his girlfriend, trucker Jean Chape encounters a dead body lying in the road. He reports it the police but they suspect that he is responsible.

Cast



* Jean Gabin as Jean Chape

* Jeanne Moreau as Alice

* Gaby Basset as Camille Serin

* Ginette Leclerc as Mme Scoppo

* Simone Berthier as Annie, une serveuse

* Charles Bouillaud as Le gendarme dactylographe

* Marcel Bozzuffi as Pierrot Ragondin

* Robert Dalban as Flix

* Albert Dinan as mile Serin

* Gilbert Edard as Un commissaire

* Camille Gurini as Lucien Ragondin

* Guy Henry as Jojo, un routier

* Roger Hanin as Ren Schwob

* Bob Ingarao as Un gangster

* Jean Lefebvre as Le chauffeur de car

* Lisette Lebon as Mauricette, une serveuse

* Jacques Marin as Un gendarme au commissariat

* Germaine Michel as Maria Ragondin, la mre de Pierrot

* Albert Michel as Le facteur

* Marcel Prs as Le barbier

* Jean-Marie Rivire as Un gangster

* Henri Crmieux as Le premier commissaire

References



Bibliography



* Frey, Hugo. 'Nationalism and the Cinema in France: Political Mythologies and Film Events, 1945-1995'. Berghahn Books, 2014.

* Harriss, Joseph. 'Jean Gabin: The Actor Who Was France'. McFarland, 2018.


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