TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI

Original Italian 55 inch x 78 inch 4-Fogli Poster for the 1954 Jacques Becker Thriller TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI, based on the novel by Albert Simonin and starring Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Rene Dary, Delia Scala, Vittorio Sanipoli, Marilyn Bufferd, Paul Frankeur, Jeanne Moreau and Dora Doll.

Jean Gabin is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max le Menteur in the Jacques Becker gem Touchez pas au grisbi (Hands Off the Loot!). Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton (René Dary), Max’s hapless partner and best friend, lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy (Jeanne Moreau), Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. .

The poster art is by Angelo Cesselon (1922 – 1992). Angelo Cesselon belongs to a group of poster designers particularly active in the field of Italian poster design between 1945 and 1975. His unmistakable portrait style created a new trend in film poster design of the 1950s and 1960s.

The poster is in very good folded condition in 2 separate sheets.