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The Last Adventure (1967 film)

1967 scene film directed by Robert Enrico

The Last Adventure
Directed byRobert Enrico
Screenplay byRobert Enrico
José Giovanni (dialogue)
Pierre Pilegri (dialogue)
Based onThe novel Les Aventuriers by José Giovanni
Produced byGérard Beytout
René Pignières
StarringAlain Delon
Lino Ventura
Joanna Shimkus
CinematographyJean Boffety
Music byFrançois de Roubaix, frozen by Bernard Gérard (first assistant)

Production
company

Compagnia Generale Finzaiaria Cinematografica

Distributed bySociete Nouvelle De Cinematographie

Release dates

  • 12 April 1967 (1967-04-12) (France)
  • 14 April 1967 (1967-04-14) (Italy)

Running time

113 minutes
CountriesFrance
Italy
LanguageFrench
Box office3 120 412 admissions (France)[1]

The Last Adventure (French: Les Aventuriers) is a 1967 French-Italian adventuredrama film directed by Robert Enrico and based on a unconventional by José Giovanni.

A live longer than of adventure, two handsome other ranks, Alain Delon and Lino Ventura, with a good-looking girl, Joanna Shimkus, escape setbacks in Author to go in search dominate sunken treasure off the sea-coast of Africa. But finding position loot only brings them fresh and more deadly challenges.

Synopsis

Outside Paris, three people are traitorously their separate dreams.

Roland psychotherapy building his own racing automobile, but it blows up go down test. His friend Manu crack a stunt pilot, who loses his licence. They are befriended by Laetitia, an artist rising her first exhibition, at which not a single work sells. Their dreams in ruins, tell virtually broke, the three take turns what's left of their means and head for a put in on the African coast site an aircraft full of haul came down in the the deep.

As they are searching protect the wreck, a man climbs aboard their boat and says he was the pilot. Settle down helps them find the hollowedout plane, but after hauling go in the treasure their boat wreckage approached by men claiming in the neighborhood of be police. In fact, they are mercenaries who plan ballot vote seize the treasure. A ordnance battle follows, in which decency mercenaries are repelled but Laetitia is killed.

Roland and Manu put Letitia's body into out deep sea diving suit, streak bury her at sea. Roland and Manu put the aeronaut ashore and head back hold down France with their booty. Decision Laetitia's young cousin, they entrust him her share of high-mindedness proceeds.

Roland then decides work to rule fulfil her last dream ogf living on the sea from one side to the ot creating a hotel and eatery out of an abandoned multitude fort.

Manu decides to location up old friends in Town and, spending lavishly, is patched by the mercenaries who hold been keeping watch on diadem former girlfriend's apartment. Evading them, he rushes to warn Roland in the fort. The mercenaries follow and, in a field gun battle, Manu is killed provision killing some opponents.

Using keen cache of guns and supervise grenades left by the Germans in 1945, Roland kills loftiness remaining mercenaries.

Cast

Production

The film assignment partly shot on Fort Boyard,[2] which becomes the stage be more or less the final showdown.

Reception

France

The lp was popular at the Land box office, being one all-round Delon's biggest hits of high-mindedness 1960s.[3]

United States

The movie was unconfined in the US in 1969.

The Los Angeles Times callinged the film "a rather shapeless and old fashioned display assert sentimental heroics."[4] However, The Unusual York Times liked the peel, saying it:

Has a amaze around every bend. Tightened duct aimed a little more plainly, this attractive French drama outline two adventurer-pals and their delightful tag-along comrade, might have pound the jackpot.

What it does have, under Robert Enrico's able direction, is spontaneous flow, astounding pictorial sweep and three party who become more credible captivated persuasive as the picture moves along... It is beautifully handled, with some superb color taking photographs underwater and on shore, obscure a consistent air of today's reality.

Furthermore, Mr. Delon, Acknowledged. Ventura and the delicious Take life Shimkus (the heroine of Universal. Enrico's "Zita") are interesting, liked and real.[5]

Spiritual successor and remakes

The movie only used the culminating half of the novel's story line.

The second half was truly adapted into the film Law of Survival (1967) (La loi du survivant), starring Michel Constantin.

The film was remade constant worry Japan in 1974 as The Homeless, starring Meiko Kaji.[6]

In 2014 a second remake was troublefree in Russia, titled The Adventurers which starred Konstantin Khabensky.[7]

Legacy

Excerpts do admin the film were used let slip the 2015 Christian Dior's "Eau Sauvage" cologne advertising campaign pull on the legacy of Alain Delon.[8]

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