About this title: Long considered a classic of European film noir, this existential gangster drama from French director Jean-Pierre Melville was released in the United States only in a severely truncated, re-edited, and overdubbed version entitled The Godson. Thirty years after its initial public airing, Le Samourai (1967) finally saw a limited American release in its intended form. Alain Delon stars as Jef Costello, a professional Parisian assassin-for-hire who, by nature of his work's solitary demands, has no friends. Although he is loved by Jane Lagrange (Natalie Delon, the star's real-life wife), Costello ...
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Format: VHS
Studio: Prodis
Date: May 16, 2000
UPC:717119642730
Description: Alain Delon, Natalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, François Perier, Michel Boisrond. Fine in very good packaging. Language: French. Run time: 103 mins. Originally released: 1967. Collectible New Yorker Video release in original box as pictured. Very slight rubbing on box, else fine. On hand and ready to ship right away. From a private collection-not an ex-rental or library. read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
DVD region: 1
Date: 10/25/2005
UPC:037429208526
Description: New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA; Attention UK customers, please use our UK account ImportCDsUK, thank you. read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
DVD region: 1
Studio: Artists International
Date: 10/25/2005
UPC:037429208526
Description: Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, François Périer, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy. New. 1967 Run time: 101. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
Studio: CRITERION
UPC:037429208526
Description: BRAND NEW. In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays blue-eyed Jef Costello, a fedora and trench-coat-wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jefs shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the smooth criminal. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s ... read more
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