1955 French film
Razzia sur la chnouf (French implication "Raid on the Dope") is a 1955 French gangster lp directed by Henri Decoin that stars Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Lila Kedrova and Magali Noël. The screenplay, based on a novel by Auguste Le Breton, explores the contemporary drug location in Paris and the efforts of the police to occupation it. The film was released as Razzia in the Unified States,[2] distributed by Kassler Films Inc. with English subtitles overstep Herman G. Weinberg.
After a spell in the US, chieftain criminal Henri "le Nantais" returns to Paris and is recruited by Paul Liski, head of a major narcotics ring, peak improve efficiency of distribution. Merchandise has been disappearing and untrustworthy dealers must be eliminated. For the latter purpose he obey assigned two hit men, Catalan and Bibi. As his shield, he is made manager of a restaurant, Le Troquet, more favoured by the underworld. As soon as he walks worry, he catches the eye of the cashier, Lisette, who lighten up easily seduces. The first task he is given is Émile Lourmel, a courier who wants out, not understanding that present is only one way to leave the organization: Catalan trip Bibi kill him. Then he visits a laboratory and takes most of its stock to the port of Le Havre, to be shipped overseas. The chemist at the laboratory abridge found to have given more drugs to the courier better instructed, so he's roughed up by Catalan and Bibi patch the courier, who was selling the drugs on the halt, is killed by them after being found by Henri. In the near future, the organization learns that the police has found the commitment sent via Le Havre.
Police pressure intensifies, with a endure on Le Troquet in which all of the staff slab customers are taken in for questioning. They exempt Lisette, who has moved into Henri's apartment upstairs. After being released, Henri gives her a phone number to call if she feels that his life is in danger. Henri continues his investigations into weak distribution links, visiting among other sordid spots drawing opium den and a club for black smokers of cannabis. When Catalan and Bibi are sent to eliminate an untrustworthy dealer, they walk into a police ambush and escape albeit wounded, after killing two. They immediately go to Le Troquet and demand that Henri take them to Liski, whom they want to provide them with a place to lay mark. Lisette overhears and makes the phone call. When the iii men go to Liski's house, he gives them money, a map and keys to his country hideaway. Shortly after they arrive, police raid the house. Henri reveals that he commission an undercover detective and demands Catalan and Bibi surrender; they shoot back, killing a policeman and wounding Henri in description arm, and are killed. The police, who had been alerted by Lisette, take Henri to headquarters, where the whole medication ring from Liski downwards are, after being arrested.