{"id":18978,"date":"2026-09-09T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18978"},"modified":"2026-09-07T08:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:00:34","slug":"police-python-357-1976-alain-corneau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18978","title":{"rendered":"Police Python 357 (1976, Alain Corneau)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A guy and his boss are seeing the same girl, then the boss murders the girl, but all evidence points at the guy. Yes, it’s a Big Clock<\/a><\/em> remake, minus the clock, sleazier, and with the guys turned from reporters into cops.<\/p>\n

When you are the lead suspect in your own investigation:<\/em>
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The killer cop boss is in all the cop\/killer movies where guys wear cool hats (Le Samourai<\/a><\/em>, Le Cercle Rouge<\/em>) and was Heurtebise in Orpheus<\/a><\/em>. Stefania from The Conformist<\/a><\/em> rejects his gifts, so he beats her to death with a stone, then immediately confesses to his bedridden wife Simone Signoret. Post-Tout Va Bien<\/a><\/em> Yves Montand investigates by tearing up the girl’s apartment, finding hidden mementos everywhere, then he goes around attacking potential witnesses, getting himself tailed by a glasses-wearing cop (of Malpertius<\/em>, which I coincidentally bought on blu-ray on the same day as this).<\/p>\n

Drunken Yves liberates some pigs:<\/em>
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Things get dark for Yves – he burns his face with acid after killing the boss and mercy-killing the boss’s wife (witnessed by Glasses Cop), then with nothing to lose he “becomes a weapon” and supercops some bad guys in the big action finale. I’m making it all sound generic, but it’s an improvement on The Big Clock<\/em> and I’m hoping to check out Corneau’s Serie Noire<\/em> next.<\/p>\n

Mouseover to set fire to your memories:<\/em>
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A guy and his boss are seeing the same girl, then the boss murders the girl, but all evidence points at the guy. Yes, it’s a Big Clock remake, minus the clock, sleazier, and with the guys turned from reporters into cops. When you are the lead suspect in your own investigation: The killer cop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,3549,34,499,1992,459],"class_list":["post-18978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-alain-corneau","tag-france","tag-police-brutality","tag-simone-signoret","tag-yves-montand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19015,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978\/revisions\/19015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}