As one of Melville's ntino put it: "He took the Bogart, Cagney, the Warner Brothers gangster films, and a lot of times he just took the stories from them and did them with Belmondo or [Alain] Delon or Jean Gabin and just gave them a different style, a different coolness… they were still trying to be like their American counterparts, but they had a different rhythm all their own." It was a style that became incredibly influential thanks to Le Doulos, above all.
