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27/01/1967 Crime, Mystery, Comedy 1h 25m
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Overview

Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis, a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.

  1. Jean-Luc Godard

    Writer, Director

Top billed cast

  1. Anna Karina

    Paula Nelson

  2. László Szabó

    Paul Widmark

  3. Jean-Pierre Léaud

    Donald Siegel

  4. Marianne Faithfull

    Marianne Faithfull

  5. Yves Afonso

    David Goodis

  6. Claude Bakka

    Man with Marianne Faithfull (uncredited)

  7. Daniel Bart

    Policeman (uncredited)

  8. Jean-Pierre Biesse

    Richard Nixon (uncredited)

  9. Jean-Claude Bouillon

    Inspector Aldrich (uncredited)

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A review by CRCulver
Written by CRCulver on 2018-08-14
In 1966 Jean-Luc Godard was approached by producer Georges de Beauregard, who said that he had some money he needed to spend and asked if Godard could make a film on very short notice. Godard said sure, and proposed adapting a pulp crime novel (Donald E. Westlake's "The Jugger"). But when Godard made the film, which would get the title Made in U.S.A., he did everything possible to break out of a straightforward adaptation, using the novel as a mere skeleton over which he could explore other themes that interested him.

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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$50,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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