Made in U.S.A (1967)

27/01/1967 (FR)•Crime, Mystery, Comedy•1h 25m

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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.

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Anna Karina
Paula Nelson
László Szabó
Paul Widmark
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Donald Siegel
Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull
Yves Afonso
David Goodis
Claude Bakka
Man with Marianne Faithfull (uncredited)
Daniel Bart
Policeman (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Biesse
Richard Nixon (uncredited)
Jean-Claude Bouillon
Inspector Aldrich (uncredited)

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A review by CRCulver

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Written by CRCulver on Aug 14, 2018

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 <i>Made in U.S.A.</i>, 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. Paula (Anna Karina), a journalist, goes to a small town where...