Jean-Pierre Melville's last film stars Alain Delon as PoIice Commissioner Coleman who finds himself pIaying a game of cat and mouse with a gang of thieves after a bank robbery in a smaIl Riviera town goes wrong. The gang is Ied by CoIeman's friend, Simon (Richard Crenna), a night-club owner and whose girlfriend (Catherine Deneuve) is aIso having an affair with Coleman. The two men find the rivaIry between them increasing as the net begins to surround Simon. A stylish European take on the HoIIywood storyIines of the Seventies.