A prison break, femme fatales and a genre-defining western: Robert Hossein (Rififi) was, both behind and in front of the camera, one of French cinema's great unsung stylists. Three of his finest genre exploits are collected here.
In The Wicked Go to Hell, two inmates (Henri Vidal, A Kiss for a Killer, and Serge Reggiani, (The Leopard) join forces to stage a daring escape. In Nude in a White Car, a drifter (Robert Hossein, also director) is tempted into a night of passion by a pair of mystery blondes (Marina Vlady, 2 or 3 Things I know about Her, and Odile Versois, Passport to Shame). In The Taste of Violence a revolutionary kidnaps the daughter (Giovanna Ralli, The Mercenary) of a dictator to negotiate a prisoner swap with his two lieutenants Chamaco (Mario Adorf, The Italian Connection) and Chico (Hans H. Neubert, Der Richter von London).
