LE DOULOS - THE FINGER MAN - Jean-Paul BELMONDO - Lot 181

LE DOULOS - THE FINGER MAN - Jean-Paul BELMONDO A film by Jean-Pierre Melville, 1963. Photo, vintage silver print, credits below the image, press clipping, stamps (including 1964, the film’s U.S. release date), and annotated on the back. Note: Photograph depicting Jean-Paul Belmondo in *Le Doulos*, a film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and released in 1962, distributed in the United States in 1964 under the title *The Finger Man*. Adapted from a novel by Pierre Lesou, this classic of French film noir brings together Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, and Jean Desailly in a complex crime plot centered on betrayal, double-crossing, and the codes of the underworld. Jean-Pierre Melville, a master of the French crime film, established with *Le Doulos* a sober and stylized aesthetic that would have a lasting influence on international cinema. These vintage promotional photographs, bearing U.S. distribution credits, stamps, and press annotations, are highly sought-after items among collectors of film noir and classic French cinema. 20.5 x 25.4 cm, including borders. Signs of handling, particularly on some white borders and at one corner tip.