Serge Reggiani gets out of the slammer and back into the game, settling an old score and throwing in with a crew on a major heist. But the cops, seemingly tipped off, catch him in the act. Was there a squealer (un doulos, in French underworld slang)? While Reggiani stews in jail, his fellow gangsters eye one another suspiciously, including safe-cracker Jean-Paul Belmondo, nightclub owner Michel Piccoli and high-roller Jacques De L?on. A major critical and commercial hit, the film is famous for a nearly nine-minute-long take wherein police captain Jean Desailly grills Belmondo as the mobile camera swoops, swirls and surveys 360 degrees around their intense exchange. DIR/SCR Jean-Pierre Melville, from the novel by Pierre Lesou; PROD Georges de Beauregard, Carlo Ponti. France, 1963, b&w, 108 min. In French with English subtitles. NOT RATED