Jean Degrave

Jean Degrave

Born: June 5, 1921
Died: October 12, 1993
in Janville-sur-Juine, Essonne, France

Movies for Jean Degrave...

Title: Châteauvallon
Released: January 4, 1985
Type: TV
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The Associate
Title: The Associate
Character: André, le ministre de l'économie (non crédité)
Released: August 22, 1979
Type: Movie
An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.
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Murder on Demand
Title: Murder on Demand
Character: Mr. Cazales
Released: June 22, 1977
Type: Movie
A man in financial trouble is thinking of killing his wife to get back the money he has placed in her name.
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Title: Minichronique
Character: le maître d'hôtel
Released: December 20, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Minichronique
Character: Le maître d'hôtel
Released: December 20, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Le Préfet
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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Le Bougnoul
Title: Le Bougnoul
Character: Le présisent du tribunal
Released: April 23, 1975
Type: Movie
A construction worker on a construction site in the Paris suburbs, Mehdi takes the bus to return home after work. Wishing to get off while the vehicle is stationary in a traffic jam, the driver refuses: while restarting, the bus hits the car in front of it. The bus driver attacks Mehdi whom he holds responsible for the incident, claiming that it is forbidden to “talk to the stagehand”. Mehdi is implicated in court and his lawyer tries to draw attention to the living conditions of immigrant workers.
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Madame Sans-Gêne
Title: Madame Sans-Gêne
Character: Raynouard
Released: December 24, 1974
Type: Movie
Catherine Hubscher, laundress, saves the life of an Austrian nobleman with the complicity of her fiancé, Sergeant Lefebvre, the day when royalty collapses. And then the years pass ... Become Marshal of the Empire and Duke of Danzig, ex Sergeant Lefebvre always has for wife Catherine, the ex laundress; and this, in spite of the efforts made by the Emperor Napoleon to have him divorced, the Emperor blamed him strongly for the lack of distinction of Catherine. Faced with the Marshal's refusal, Catherine was summoned to the Emperor's house and the dialogue between them lacked heat to say the least, until the former lieutenant Bonaparte recognized in Maréchale Lefebvre, Catherine the laundress, who once , gave him credit for his laundering debts.
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Young Casanova
Title: Young Casanova
Character: Léon Vermanstein
Released: November 20, 1974
Type: Movie
Gerard Casanova is the man that all the rich and beautiful women call when they need a little more then the husbands to give them. He's always on call to satisfy their every sexual urge.
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Title: À vous de jouer Milord
Character: Julian
Released: November 4, 1974
Type: TV
This French spy story presented in comic book style was broadcasted on TV on November 1974. It tells the adventures of Hubert de Pomarec (Henri Piégay), alias “Milord”, a retired spy called back into service to foil the abduction of the new army tank AMX 30 by a gang of crooks.
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The Phantom of Liberty
Title: The Phantom of Liberty
Released: September 10, 1974
Type: Movie
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
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Two Men in Town
Title: Two Men in Town
Character: Educator (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
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Revolver
Title: Revolver
Character: Harmakolas
Released: September 27, 1973
Type: Movie
An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.
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The Conspiracy
Title: The Conspiracy
Released: May 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Paris 1960. DeGaulle determines to end a bitter war in Algeria by granting its independence. Millions oppose him, including a group of DeGaulle's disenchanted Arm Officers. In a desperate attempt to save the colony for France, they plan a daring jailbreak of their imprisoned leader. A network of snitches inform a tenacious detective leading to an explosive three-way cat-and-mouse game among the rebels, the Gaullist politicos and the police.
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Noix de coco
Title: Noix de coco
Character: Colleville
Released: December 11, 1972
Type: Movie
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Title: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: Movie
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Title: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Character: St. Paul's Clinic Director (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1971
Type: Movie
Carol Hammond, the sexually frustrated wife of a successful London lawyer, is having bizarre, erotic dreams about her uninhibited neighbour, Julia Durer, who presides over noisy, sex and drug filled parties in the house next door. One night, Carol dreams culminate in violent death and she wakes to find her nightmares have become reality - Julia has been murdered and Carol is the main suspect. Was she set up, or did she really do it?
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Dix petits nègres
Title: Dix petits nègres
Character: Rober
Released: October 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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Les Dix Petits Nègres
Title: Les Dix Petits Nègres
Released: October 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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Doris
Title: Doris
Character: Lamoral
Released: February 5, 1970
Type: Movie
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Angelique and the King
Title: Angelique and the King
Character: Le domestique d'Angélique
Released: January 31, 1966
Type: Movie
Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs her to help convince the Persian Ambassador to agree to a treaty. However, what they didn't realize was that the handsome Persian was in fact a sexual sadist. So, it is up to the King's half- brother, some Hungarian prince, to save Angélique from the evil troll's clutches.
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Les mordus de Paris
Title: Les mordus de Paris
Released: May 31, 1965
Type: Movie
Paris is a city where effervescence is dangerous for city dwellers, who have become nothing more than "nervous machines". Two eminent psychiatrists, one French and one American, decided to administer a sedative to all Parisians, proceeding by arrondissement, which they injected in single, double or triple doses. Soon, the whole of Paris was injected. Calm, good humor and kindness returned, but 11 refused to be treated and remained the only Parisian not to have been treated.
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Hard Boiled Ones
Title: Hard Boiled Ones
Released: June 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.
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Le bluffeur
Title: Le bluffeur
Released: May 6, 1964
Type: Movie
Fredo, a former gangster nicknamed "The Bluffer", has just been released from prison and is now thinking of going into the legal world with a friend. But his ex-partners are desperate to find him, to punish him for operating without their cooperation. His fortune is stolen and he is accused of a diamond robbery perpetrated by the old gang.
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Judex
Title: Judex
Character: Notary
Released: December 4, 1963
Type: Movie
Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade's lengthy serial of the same name, about an adventurer named Judex (Channing Pollock) whose revenge against the corrupt banker Favraux (Michel Vitold) unleashes a complicated series of schemes.
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La parole est au témoin
Title: La parole est au témoin
Released: November 17, 1963
Type: Movie
Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hurry to escape his pursuers after robbing a jewelry store. The next day, reading the newspapers, Mustapha becomes aware of the role he has played in this affair, and would gladly assist the police if a fortuitous incident didn't make him fear the criminals' vengeance. It's a cruel dilemma in which he is both suspected by some and threatened by others. Weak but honest, he manages to get out of this predicament at the risk of his life!
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Symphony for a Massacre
Title: Symphony for a Massacre
Character: L'employé de la salle de jeux
Released: August 2, 1963
Type: Movie
A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.
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No temas a la ley
Title: No temas a la ley
Character: Le commissaire
Released: August 2, 1963
Type: Movie
Jean Faran has the misfortune to run over with his car a young woman named Micaela. Once recovered from the fright, she invites him to her house to have a few drinks.
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Ladies First
Title: Ladies First
Character: Le lieutenant de gendarmerie chez Clémenti
Released: April 12, 1963
Type: Movie
An FBI agent works to arrest David Griffin, a murderous drug trafficker, and protect Juliette, the beautiful widow of Griffin's late partner.
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La fille du torrent
Title: La fille du torrent
Released: March 14, 1962
Type: Movie
Widowed at the age of twenty, Madame Boissière is a real mother hen, excessively brooding over her two sons Robert and Claude. She spoiled the marriage of one and kept the other away from any female presence. The latter runs off and marries a girl from the mountains. When his brother dies, the couple agree to return to live with Madame Boissière, who tries to separate them.
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The Fighting Musketeers
Title: The Fighting Musketeers
Character: M. de la Porte
Released: October 4, 1961
Type: Movie
D'Artagnan is back from England with a message for the queen. Buckingham has declared that he was ready to attack France to deliver Anne of Austria. D'Artagnan ends up arrested and thrown into prison. Musketeers wonder how to rescue their friend.
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The Gigolo
Title: The Gigolo
Character: Bligny
Released: October 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Agathe Perrin, a wealthy widow in her forties, lives with her ailing father in an estate on the shores of Lac du Bourget, not far from Aix-les-Bains. For the past four years, she has been involved in an affair with a twenty-four-year-old artist, Jackie, that is beginning to weigh heavily on her. The frequent visits of a brilliant Aix doctor to the sick old man's bedside have distracted Agathe from her very young lover. She'd like to send him away, but he clings to her desperately, and we witness the drama of this break-up, both feared and rejected by Agathe. Blinded by jealousy, Jackie decides to leave, but not without behaving like a spoiled, insolent child.
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Soupe au lait
Title: Soupe au lait
Released: July 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Roland Lasserre is a shy boy, which would be nothing if he weren't also prone to the violent tantrums that have earned him his nickname "Soupe au lait". It's when Francine announces her engagement that he decides to declare his love for her. Francine is not at all keen on the husband her parents are forcing on her - a wealthy record manufacturer - but she gives in under their pressure and asks Roland to give her up. But fate has other plans. A car accident provokes the young man's anger, and with Francine on board, he chases after the hit-and-run driver and ends up in a ditch, luckily undamaged, 50 km from Paris. Torrential rain, lack of transport, welcoming hostelry. All Roland and Francine have to do is confess their guilt, and for the sake of honor, get married... All would be well were it not for René, the neglected fiancé, who provokes "Soupe au lait" and triggers a scandal during the ceremony.
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The Road to Shame
Title: The Road to Shame
Released: April 30, 1959
Type: Movie
Pierre Rossi and Béatrice live in the same block of flats in Marseille and love each other. One night, Béatrice leaves her apartment. Pierre knows that his fiancée goes to a rendezvous, but she would not tell him more than just that. Worried, Pierre follows her but he is attacked and stolen his identity papers by two men, Tom and Nasol, on the payroll of Quaglio, one of the city's bosses. Later on, Quaglio kills Nasol and deposits the body in a garage, leaving Pierre's papers nearby. As for Pierre, he manages to follow Tom to a villa where several young women have been invited. Pierre, horrified, realizes that this place is the headquarters for the white slave trade. - Written by Guy Bellinger
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The Chasers
Title: The Chasers
Character: Un invité de la surboum (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Two men spend a night in Paris trying to pick up women.
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Clara and the Villains
Title: Clara and the Villains
Released: December 24, 1958
Type: Movie
A rich kid, the daughter of an oil tycoon, lives a life of luxury. Bad guys kidnap the heiress.
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Maxime
Title: Maxime
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Story of an aging dandy who is the factotum and arranger of female conquests for a brusque young millionaire.
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Madame et son auto
Title: Madame et son auto
Released: October 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Sophie Dirondel, history teacher at the Saint-Cloison-sur-Ermoise, wins the jackpot of a lottery, a 2CV. The good-natured woman is both happy and slightly upset, as she doe not have her driving-license. But she decides to take driving lessons and although she does not prove very gifted she manages to pass the test. She grasps the opportunity to achieve one of her sweetest dreams and, proudly sitting behind her wheel, heads for the City of Light. Alone in Paris, she gets to know Victor Martini, a smooth operator. The man who, in real fact, is the leader of a gang, has no problem bamboozling the naive woman.
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Life Together
Title: Life Together
Character: Le valet de chambre des Sellier
Released: September 24, 1958
Type: Movie
The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deeply in love - if any: else, his companions get the money. He sends them out to visit the couples and test their love.
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Every Day Has Its Secret
Title: Every Day Has Its Secret
Released: June 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Given up for dead three years ago in a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest, a young woman arrives in Paris to find her eminent ethnologist husband. She learns of his death in obscure circumstances, having remarried in the meantime. She sets out to unravel the mystery surrounding her husband's death.
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The Night Affair
Title: The Night Affair
Character: Le préparateur en pharmacie
Released: May 14, 1958
Type: Movie
Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal. Taking it upon himself to wean Lucky away from narcotics, Vallois also wins her love -- and, incidentally, smashes the dope ring responsible for her addiction.
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A Certain Mr. Jo
Title: A Certain Mr. Jo
Character: Alfred Léonard
Released: April 16, 1958
Type: Movie
Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dreaded gangster. The respectful citizen does not want to have anything to do with the underworld any more. Unfortunately, two of his former accomplices kidnap a little girl and decide to hide her in his hotel. What will Jo do : side with the law in the person of inspector Loriot or have a relapse in crime?
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Three Days to Live
Title: Three Days to Live
Character: Réceptionniste de l'hôtel
Released: March 12, 1958
Type: Movie
Struggling actor Simon witnesses a murder; he didn't see the killer, but that doesn't stop him from claiming that he did in order to get his name into the papers. Sure enough, the murderer targets him as his next victim. Our hero is temporarily rescued by Jeanne, a fellow aspiring actress who has always had a crush on him.
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Back to the Wall
Title: Back to the Wall
Character: Le bijoutier
Released: March 7, 1958
Type: Movie
Rich industrialist Jacques Decret learns his wife Gloria is having an affair with a young actor. For revenge, he bombards her with anonymous letters, convincing her that her lover is the culprit while Gloria desperately seeks a way out.
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In Six Easy Lessons
Title: In Six Easy Lessons
Released: February 26, 1958
Type: Movie
A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes wedding arrangements, something happens to his bride to be: she develops amnesia after an accident.
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Too Many Lovers
Title: Too Many Lovers
Released: December 11, 1957
Type: Movie
The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get married, she sets her heart on Robert, a young industrialist, but he is already married. Disappointed, she sets out in search of the ideal man.
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Whereabouts Unknown
Title: Whereabouts Unknown
Released: July 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Michel Thierry is asked by the Second Bureau to go to Provence to help two colleagues, Leroy and Orcado, who are monitoring a gang of arms dealers. As soon as he arrives, Orcado is shot and leaves him an incomprehensible message in which three words are written: Sarah, Métis, Yerco...
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The Wheel
Title: The Wheel
Released: July 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Pierre is an engine driver who adopts a small girl, a WWI orphan. A widower, he sees in her the image of her mother.
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Miss Catastrophe
Title: Miss Catastrophe
Released: April 24, 1957
Type: Movie
A talented but crazy painter, Elvire Mercier agrees to sell one of her canvases to Pierre Leroy, a rich heir. But after a string of misunderstandings, she hands her painting over to a swindler. And her problems have only just begun.
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Love Descends from the Sky
Title: Love Descends from the Sky
Released: April 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Pau is home to the famous "Red Berets". Four of them have forged close friendships: Dominique, a Corsican with the rank of master sergeant; Julien, a peasant; Dédé, a wild Parisian; Jean, a shy provincial. On free evenings, the four friends meet in a bar where Dominique is interested in the waitress and Dédé is in love with Paulette, the owner's daughter. One day, a car breakdown brings Jean into contact with a young girl from Paris: Brigitte. But Brigitte leaves again and Jean can't stop thinking about her. Because of their good behavior, the battalion to which the four men belong is chosen to represent their arm at the July 14th parade in Paris. In the capital, each of them tries to find their loved ones.
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Le colonel est de la revue
Title: Le colonel est de la revue
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
To spice up a life that's too quiet, a couple of friends play at being gangsters, but end up meeting some real hoodlums.
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The Adventures of Gil Blas
Title: The Adventures of Gil Blas
Released: April 6, 1956
Type: Movie
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Une fille épatante
Title: Une fille épatante
Character: Le maître d'hôtel
Released: December 6, 1955
Type: Movie
Dominique is a pretty, vivacious girl. When she witnesses a car theft, she throws herself and her bicycle under the vehicle. Jacques Mareuil, whom she then blackmails, pays her a sum to cover her debts. In reality, Mareuil, a policeman, is keeping an eye on Atcheminov, the owner of the car, but, wanting to prove that he is an unscrupulous trafficker, he comes up against Dominique's impetuosity time and again. It all ends up like in a good comedy.
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The Grand Manoeuvre
Title: The Grand Manoeuvre
Character: Un officier
Released: October 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.
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Casque d'Or
Title: Casque d'Or
Released: March 13, 1952
Type: Movie
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.
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The Cape of Hope
Title: The Cape of Hope
Character: Le docteur à l'hôpital (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Lyria, a faded beauty who runs a seedy waterfront bar, is madly in love with Bob, a crooked attorney. Bob can't bring himself to confess his love for Minnie, the pretty daughter of Simon, a safe cracker. In order to run away with her, Bob, one of the masterminds of a big-time robbery, betrays his friends. But Lyria, who has found out what is happening, makes Minnie fall into a deadly trap.