☎️ But nothing he actually does in #PeurSurLaVille (aka #TheNightCaller) equals this sequence he did in Le Casse (The Burglars) as far as I'm concerned! 📽️🎞️

Frame from the French action thriller 'Peur sur la ville' (1975), released in English speaking countries as 'The Night Caller'. Slightly angled view from above of a brown haired middle-aged man (Jean-Paul Belmondo as Jean Letellier) wearing a grey blazer and a white collared shirt is hanging from a window railing by his left hand and he's pointing a revolver with his right. Two lane asphalt street below with two cars, an auburn on the left and a black one on the right.

Frame from the French action thriller 'Peur sur la ville' (1975), released in English speaking countries as 'The Night Caller'. A brown haired middle-aged man (Jean-Paul Belmondo as Jean Letellier) wearing a brown leather jacket, a brown tie and a white collared shirt is clinging to the protrusions of a roof. View of a Parisian intersection with cars and people down below.

Frame from the French action thriller 'Peur sur la ville' (1975), released in English speaking countries as 'The Night Caller'. View of a blue Parisian metro train travelling on a viaduct with a single man dressed in a brown jacket, a white shirt and brown trousers standing on top of the moving train.

Frame from the French action thriller 'Peur sur la ville' (1975), released in English speaking countries as 'The Night Caller'. A dark blue police helicopter hovering above Paris as its lowering a man hanging from a wire. The river Seine and Parisian cityscape in the background with some highrises in the distance.

☎️ But even the action sequences weren't really enough to save #PeurSurLaVille for me. Even though Belmondo seems to be doing most of them himself. 🫣 #TheNightCaller 📽️🎞️

Poster for the French action thriller 'Peur sur la ville' (1975), released in English speaking countries as 'The Night Caller'. Directed by Henri Verneuil. Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli, Catherine Morin, Jean Martin, Giovanni Cianfriglia, Lea Massari and Rosy Varte. On top of the poster the leading man Jean-Paul Belmondo's last name in large white block letters. On the poster a brown haired middle-aged man (Jean-Paul Belmondo as Jean Letellier) dressed in black turtleneck and trousers with a revolver in a shoulder holster resting his right arm on his raised right leg. The film's title in yellow letters next to Belmondo's right foot. Beneath the image of Belmondo the director Henri Verneuil's last name in large red block letters.

Frame from the French action thriller 'Peur sur la ville' (1975), released in English speaking countries as 'The Night Caller'. A brown haired middle-aged man (Jean-Paul Belmondo as Jean Letellier) wearing a brown leather jacket, a white collared shirt and a brown tie and holding a revolver in his right hand is standing in a darkly lit warehouse surrounded by white baldheaded female mannequins.

Frame from the French action thriller 'Peur sur la ville' (1975), released in English speaking countries as 'The Night Caller'. Close-up of a reflection on the mirror on the inside of an opened locker's door of a woman (Catherine Morin as Hélène Grammont) with short auburn hair and wearing a grey shirt being strangled by hands covered in green gloves.

☎️ #PeurSurLaVille had been on my watchlist since Jean-Paul Belmondo's passing. And I'm not sure if it's *just* down to having too high expectations but #TheNightCaller did end up being somewhat disappointing even though it did have certain amount of "French Dirty Harry" vibes. 📽️🎞️

Watching #TheNightCaller