Flipping the classic “American in Paris” on its head, Deux hommes en Manhattan (Two Men in Manhattan) is Jean-Pierre Melville’s apotheotic homage to the film noir.  The story opens during the Christmas season in New York. M. Fevre-Berthier, the French delegate to the United Nations is a no-show for an important vote, setting in motion a tense search mission by French Press Agency reporter Moreau (Melville) and his alcoholic sidekick, the paparazzi photographer Delmas (Pierre Grasset).

Their search traverses some of the legendary locations of the Big Apple like Greenwich Village and the theater district, and, of course, they are being followed by a mysterious car.  Using a search strategy based on follow up with the diplomat’s probable mistresses, we met actress Judith Nelson (Ginger Hall), singer Virginia Graham (Glenda Leigh), hooker Gloria (Monique Hennessy), exotic dancer Bessie Reed (Michele Bailly) among others.

Moreau and Delmas move inexorably toward a stunning discovery of the French diplomat’s fate but there are additional plot twists and turns including a final encounter with Fevre-Berthier’s daughter Anne (Christiane Eudes) before matters are finally resolved.

Rip Specs

General           : Two Men In Manhattan.1959.720p.BluRay.x264-mfcorrea.mkv
Format            : Matroska at 7 144 Kbps
Length            : 4.22 GiB for 1h 24mn 30s 190ms

Video #0          : AVC at 6 500 Kbps
Aspect            : 960 x 720 (1.333) at 23.976 fps

Audio #0          : AC-3 at 640 Kbps
Infos             : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz
Language          : fr

Text #0           : VobSub
Language          : en
 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052733

Language: French, English
Subtitles: English

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