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HONOR AMONG THIEVES (Adieu l'ami) is a French movie directed by Jean Herman in 1967.

Two ex-members of the Foreign Legion, Barran and Propp, try to steal the content of the safe of a big corporation during the Christmas weekend. After having managed to open the safe, which was empty, they are accidentally locked up in the room. Nearly 48 hours later, almost dying of thirst, they find their way out through an air duct and understand, when they stumble upon the corpse of a security guard, that they've been mislead : someone had already stolen the money before their own arrival. Franz Propp (Bronson) is soon arrested by the police but Dino Barran (Delon) will discover that the persons to blame for the robbery are in fact the mistress and the daughter of the corporation's owner.


Plot & Themes
Time/Era of Movie:
Crime & Police Story? Yes
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40 %
If this is a criminal POV story...

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Nationality - French

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Nationality - French
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique
How sensitive is this character?

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - France
City? Yes
City: - wealthy
Misc setting - building

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately messy visuals of dead
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - kissing - seeing nude female butt
Kind of violence: - hand to hand
Unusual forms of death - perforation--bullets
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