Gas-Oil

1955 film

9 November 1955 (1955-11-09)

Running time

92 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrench

Gas-Oil is a 1955 French crime drama film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Gaby Basset and Ginette Leclerc. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location at a variety of places. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. It was one of a number of films portraying tough truck drivers made in the wake of the success of the 1953 film The Wages of Fear.^[1] It was the first of many films in which Gabin appeared in written by his fellow Parisian Michel Audiard.^[2]

Synopsis

While driving home one night after meeting his girlfriend, trucker Jean Chape encounters a dead body lying in the road. He reports it the police but they suspect that he is responsible.

Cast

Jean Gabin as Jean Chape
Jeanne Moreau as Alice
Gaby Basset as Camille Serin
Ginette Leclerc as Mme Scoppo
Simone Berthier as Annie, une serveuse
Charles Bouillaud as Le gendarme dactylographe
Marcel Bozzuffi as Pierrot Ragondin
Robert Dalban as Félix
Albert Dinan as Émile Serin
Gilbert Edard as Un commissaire
Camille Guérini as Lucien Ragondin
Guy Henry as Jojo, un routier
Roger Hanin as René Schwob
Bob Ingarao as Un gangster
Jean Lefebvre as Le chauffeur de car
Lisette Lebon as Mauricette, une serveuse
Jacques Marin as Un gendarme au commissariat
Germaine Michel as Maria Ragondin, la mère de Pierrot
Albert Michel as Le facteur
Marcel Pérès as Le barbier
Jean-Marie Rivière as Un gangster
Henri Crémieux as Le premier commissaire

References

^ Frey p.131
^ Harriss p.174

Bibliography

Frey, Hugo. Nationalism and the Cinema in France: Political Mythologies and Film Events, 1945-1995. Berghahn Books, 2014.
Harriss, Joseph. Jean Gabin: The Actor Who Was France. McFarland, 2018.

External links

Gas-Oil at IMDb

Films by Michel Audiard

Written and directed

Leontine (1968)
A Golden Widow (1969)
Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause ! (1970)
Comment réussir quand on est con et pleurnichard (1974)

Written only

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The Three Musketeers (1953)
April Fools' Day (1954)
The Cheerful Squadron (1954)
Love in a Hot Climate (1954)
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Gas-Oil (1955)
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Mannequins of Paris (1956)
Short Head (1956)
Fugitive in Saigon (1957)
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Speaking of Murder (1957)
Three Days to Live (1957)
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Films directed by Gilles Grangier