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Released
1962 · FILM

Crime Does Not Pay

Directed by
Runtime
156 min
Language
FR
ComedyCrimeDrama

Synopsis

A man walks into a movie theater in Paris and starts watching a film—the same one we're watching, consisting of four stories of best criminal intentions gone awry from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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Principal cast & crew: 20

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Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Roger DwyreShot by Christian MatrasScored by Georges Delerue

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