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Question about beginning of movie:

posted 18 years ago by themollineaux
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I just saw this-- it was pretty great. The catch, though: the cinema inexcusably started the film well before the listed start time, and I missed the beginning of the film.

(I got in for free because of this; so it wasn't a complete wash.)

The first thing I caught was everybody on the boat, right before the guy in the striped shirt was thrown overboard. What did I miss? Did they show the heist taking place?

Was there a clever credit sequence?

Anything of consequence, at all, that I should feel bad for missing?

Thanks.

[–] cjbaier 18 years ago

The opening credits are standard. The actual film starts in Milan's railway station. The narrator explains that Abel Davos (Ventura) fled to Italy after escaping arrest in France where he was sentenced to death in absentia. He and partner Raymond Naldi (Stan Krol) have decided to return to France. Abel puts his wife and 2 sons on a train. He and Raymond plan to pull one last robbery and meet up with the family in a border town. The men snatch a bank courier's satchel. There's a multi-vehicle chase and a break through a road block before they reunite with Therese and the boys.

If you get a chance, see it from the very begining.

[–] themollineaux 18 years ago

Thanks for the help.

...I guess I'll have to catch the beginning, eventually. (Probably when Criterion releases it on DVD-- a good bet.)