Pepe le Moko

by Henri La Barthe, Julien Duvivier, Henri Jeanson Jacques

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Paris: Robert and Raymond Hakim / Paris Film, circa 1936. Draft script for the 1937 French film. An English-language version of the text issued by the Hakim brothers for use in the US. James M. Cain and John Howard Lawson adapted the story for a US film version in 1938, titled Algiers, directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr. A seminal noir antecedent, oddly produced by the French, who would go on to consider the

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