Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #101020 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-12-24
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 95 minutes

From the Back Cover
Max Lambert (Gabin), an aging infamous robber, is serving twenty years of incarceration in France's toughest jail for a quite hefty heist. Inside, he befriends Pierre (Brialy), a notorious escape artist. Max shares with him the hiding place of the fifty million dollars in pure gold that was never recovered by police - it's buried in a chapel just outside Rome. Together they plan to escape, dressed as a bishop and his assisting priest. It's the year of the saints and the two figure they can take advantage of the confusion by hiding in the crowds of pilgrims that are coursing down the roads and through the airports leading to the holy city. They are in little doubt of the adventures that lie ahead!

Customer Reviews

Another botched job from Vanguard?
There is nothing wrong with the movie: the 1970s were not easy on the eyes, but for who likes kitsch, good dialogue, a nicely tight plot , the amazing Jean Gabin and the ever charming Danielle Darrieux, L'Annee Sainte holds its own beautifully in the French soft gangster genre. BUT but but: where on earth did the producers of this DVD get their print? The thing looks picked up straight out of a badly pirated TV screen, complete with fuzz and shaky images, and as for the the "English subtitles" (that cannot be turned off, by the way), they are hideously laughable (when they are present at all: sometime, entire bits of dialogue are left untranslated, and sometime the translation comes in... ohmigod: Spanish!). Hello: this is a DVD, not your dad's old VCR copy frenzy!