Choice of Arms

Original title: Le choix des armes

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

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Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, and Yves Montand in Choice of Arms (1981)

Crime Drama

The powerful story of a reformed underworld kingpin whose stable lifestyle is turned upside-down when a desperate, escaped killer hides out at his rural estate.The powerful story of a reformed underworld kingpin whose stable lifestyle is turned upside-down when a desperate, escaped killer hides out at his rural estate.The powerful story of a reformed underworld kingpin whose stable lifestyle is turned upside-down when a desperate, escaped killer hides out at his rural estate.

Director
- Alain Corneau
Writers
- Alain Corneau
- Michel Grisolia
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

2.1K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Alain Corneau
Writers
- Alain Corneau
- Michel Grisolia
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The German dubbed 35mm Dolby Stereo prints did have a sound error: parts within each reel were side-reversed, i.e. what was intended to be heard from the left front speaker was actually heard from the right front speaker.

Connections
Referenced in Girare Le choix des armes (2007)

Soundtracks
La Choix Des Armes (Main Title)
Written by Philippe Sarde
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra

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Review

Featured review

Saw it in Prison

... in France, of all places. Believe it or not, they actually showed this film on movie night in St. Martin de Re in southern France. I spent a few months there back in '83 as a temporary guest after an altercation with my book maker.

First of all, Catherine DeNeuve is delicious in this film, as always. Depardieu is superb, playing Mickey Le Dingue with a subtle touch that none of us were expecting. Guards and inmates alike, we cried at the sad parts and cheered on the criminals at the crime parts.

French prisons have gotten a lot of bad publicity of late due to the high suicide rate and the beatings or murders by the guards, and the knife attacks, and that's all true, but underneath the squalor and brutality and physical horror, there's beauty and art, and film and Mickey Le Dingue and Miss Deneuve. It was worth going to prison to see this movie.