Echappement Libre (aka Backfire) (1964)

A Paris native and none too bright smuggler (Jean Paul Belmondo) uses a sportscar to transport gold to Lebanon. His contact and attractive traveling companion (Jean Seberg) seems to know much more about the operation than he does. Things go awry when when he decides to steal the gold for himself, setting off an international game of cat and mouse. Based on the novel by Clet Coroner and directed by Jack Becker (Jacques' nephew). A rather nondescript action movie that is enhanced by Edmond Sechan's (THAT MAN FROM RIO) wide screen B&W cinematography of the Greece, Switzerland, Italy, France and Lebanon locations. Then there's the chemistry of Belmondo and Seberg reuniting for the first time four years after Godard's BREATHLESS (1960). With Gert Frobe, Enrico Maria Salerno, Fernando Rey and Diana Lorys.