What a rare movie from France, very hard to find, with known actors though. Hardy Kruger, who was an international star and already used in French movies, Georges Géret, Francis Blanche and Raymond Pellegrin, exquisite as a rotten, rogue prison guard, pushing Kruger, the inmate, to commit a robbery inside the jail. The topic is rather usual, very foreseeable but it remains a good time waster, especially for seventies era lovers as I am with the appropriate atmosphere. The main character is empathetic, as a escaped con trying to pull a last job before getting away with his daughter. Classical but taut, effective. The burglary sequence riveting for the audience and a poignant ending.
Review of Le solitaire
