Reviews

• A wonderful treasure from the seemingly inexhaustible cornucopia of crackling French crime dramas.

  Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times
  
  26 April 2013

• Max is played by Jean Gabin, named "the actor of the century" in a French poll, in Jacques Becker's Touchez Pas au Grisbi, a 1954 French crime film that uncannily points the way toward Jean-Pierre Melville's great "Bob Le Flambeur" the following year.

  Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times
  
  26 April 2013

• The magic here is all in the telling: in the graceful, laconic direction of Jacques Becker.

  Edward Guthmann - The San Francisco Chronicle
  
  26 April 2013

• Roughly translated, Touchez pas au Grisbi means ''don't touch the loot.'' But in literal terms, this film version of Albert Simonin's blockbuster really couldn't care less who ends up with the cash.

  Janice Page - The Boston Globe
  
  26 April 2013

• Jean Gabin wasn't yet 50 when he starred as a big-time, high-style gangster hoping to retire, but he still looks pretty wasted, and this pungent tale about aging and friendship, adapted from a best-selling noir thriller by Albert Simonin, would be hard to imagine without his puffy features.

  Jonathan Rosenbaum - Chicago Reader
  
  26 April 2013