Greed in the Sun (1964)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The Worst Film Ever

Absolutely Brilliant!

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

...in the clothes of a truck drivers story. good dialogues. good performances. and a not real convincing plot. but nice for individual stories, for the fight scene, for humor and for the well known recipe , used in decent manner. secrets, misteries - many predictable, Belmondo and Ventura and the American flavour of a Verneuil film.

"Greed In The Sun" is a 1964 movie that is a time capsule, a view of a world long gone, where expatriate French nationals live and work in a heavily Arabic North African country. This movie was filmed in part in Marrakesh, Morocco, where at one point the camera pans across the primitive tanneries in that city as the characters walk to their destination. In the movie, the city is identified as Le Moussorah, a name that exists only on the hotel sign and mile markers made as set dressing for this movie. The movie itself deals with the truck drivers who transport goods through the desert and over mountainous terrain . Those drivers include Jean-Paul Belmondo and Lino Ventura, playing buddies who work for Gert Frobe's trucking company.Gert Frobe's character has the best lines in the movie, but he vanishes after arranging for a newly hired driver to take a mysterious shipment of goods to Salem. Rocco, Belmondo's character, steals the truck and Frobe pays Marec (Lino Ventura) to recover the truck. Marec is not very good at that job, another company truck driver, Mitch- Mitch, helps him out three separate times when Marec has problems. Why Frobe did not hire the more competent Mitch-Mitch for the job is anyone's guess.In "Greed In The Sun", the female characters are treated as second-class humans, dummies good for sex and not much else. The Arab characters are treated worse, lackeys there to serve their European masters. For that matter, the drivers don't come out looking very good either. Marec is a thug who demolishes a roadside store and Rocco is a greedy pig.In France, there is on sale a Blu-ray version of "Greed In The Sun", a new restoration where the black and white photography looks crystal clear. French only though, and no optional English subtitles. For one scene at the end, there are large, old fashioned hard coded French subtitles, which indicates to me that the original camera negative is missing. Otherwise, we would have new subtitles for this short segment.The American DVD release of "Greed In The Sun" is a disaster, using an older print, having large white hard coded English subtitles. The subtitles themselves leave out stuff and have errors. I made subtitles using English subtitles from an Internet site where the subs had exact timing but the translation and grammar were off.The 1960s were the peak decade for director Henri Verneuil, a decade he ended with his great crime film, "The Sicilian Clan", a movie that also starred Lino Ventura. Thanks to computer technology, I was able to make a DVD of "Greed In The Sun" that combined the Blu-ray movie with optional on-off English subtitles in a nicer font, subs that I edited.In this movie, the scenes that stand out for me are when the trucks drive through the center of the city identified as Le Moussorah. You see swarms of people walking all over the plaza with cars parked in a group on one side. 1964 and the location unit filming here showed how crowded this Southern Algeria city already was. The place looked really depressing, a giant flea market look to it, baking under the sun. No wonder people who live in crowded places like that look to migrate to nicer locations.

Due to some slip-up, this film was not copyrighted in the U.S.A. The film was made by S.N.E. Gaumont—Trianon Productions—UltraFilm. In the U.S.A. and other countries it was released through Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. New York opening at the Apollo: 18 August 1965. U.S. release: 18 August 1965. Australian release: 28 October 1966. Sydney opening at the Capitol (ran one week). 122 minutes (U.S.); 109 minutes (Australia).SYNOPSIS: A truck, loaded with contraband guns and ammunition, is hijacked on its way from Morocco to Nigeria.COMMENT: Here we find the screenwriter of "Cloportes" (Michel Audiard) and the star (Lino Ventura) in a follow-up to "The Wages of Fear", brilliantly directed by Henri Verneuil. For once in his working life, Jean-Paul Belmondo is brilliantly and appropriately cast as a villain. The movie features good location camera-work, with plenty of solid action and seat-gripping excitement. It has only one demerit: The fade-out is a little disappointing. Otherwise, in my book anyway, "Greed in the Sun" rates as top suspense entertainment.

A classic, comedic chase movie starring the finest french actors from the 60's and a legendary Bond villain, no less !The movie follows Marec (Lino Ventura), a truck driver sent by his boss (Gert Fröbe) to track down through the Morroccan desert a reckless youngster (Jean-Paul Belmondo) who stole a brand-new truck and its payload. Riddled with bad luck, Marec will face the dangers of the desert, as well as a fishy partner, and a reluctant, misogynist tow-truck helper (the hilarious Bernard Blier) until the climactic fight.An excellent 60's French action-comedy, complete with great music, perfect direction by Henri Verneuil ("Le Casse", "Un singe en hiver", "La bataille de San Sebastian", "Le corps de mon ennemi") and hilarious dialogues by Michel Audiard. Reminds a lot of Peckinpah's "Convoy" (1978). It doesn't take itself seriously, and however reveals a lot about the times, the misogynistic and somewhat imperialistic nature of the French in Northern Africa during the early 60's. And even if the characters are sometimes real morons, in the end of the day you really root for them.