“Pepe le Moko” is the stuff that dreams are made of. An acknowledged classic of doomed romanticism and atmospheric fatalism, this 1937 French film was such a hit on its release that Hollywood promptly ...

Pepe le Moko (Jean Gabin) is a well-known criminal mastermind who eludes the French police by hiding in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows he is safe in this labyrinthine netherworld, where he is ...

Now that the new-print revival has been a regular feature of the indie film-exhibition scene for nearly two decades, we've almost reached the point where all the truly worthy neglected films of the ...

Holed up in the labyrinthine trap of narrow cobblestoned streets and dark dead-end alleys in the bustling Casbah quarter of Algiers, the charismatic leader and elegant Parisian gangster, Pépé le Moko, ...

Pépé le Moko (French Production; Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn release) arrived in the U. S. following its tail. Produced during the heyday of the French cinema four years ago, it sired a Hollywood ...

Pepe le Moko doesn't show its age. (It was made in 1937.) It shows its art. Graham Greene thought it raised the thriller to a new level of poetry. It fairly reeks of pre-war fatalism, too: the sort of ...