Made in U.S.A. (1966 film)
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| Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Produced by | Georges de Beauregard |
| Written by |
Jean-Luc Godard Donald E. Westlake (novel The Jugger) |
| Starring |
Anna Karina Jean-Pierre Léaud |
| Music by |
Robert Schumann Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Cinematography | Raoul Coutard |
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Release date
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1966 |
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Running time
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85 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $50,000 |
| Box office | $95,209 |
Made in U.S.A is a 1966 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó and Yves Afonso. It was inspired by the Howard Hawks film The Big Sleep and unofficially based on the novel The Jugger, by Richard Stark (a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake). Because neither Godard nor the producer paid the book's adaptation rights and following legal action by Westlake, the film was long unavailable in the United States. The film had its U.S. premiere on April 1, 2009 (three months after Westlake's death) at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in a newly restored print distributed by Rialto Pictures.Criterion released the film on DVD in July 2009.
Paula Nelson (Anna Karina) goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, at an unknown point in the future (maybe 1969). Once there, she learns that Richard is dead and decides to investigate. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis (Yves Afonso), a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.
The movie was shot at the same time as Two or Three Things I Know About Her. Godard did it to help his friend and producer, Georges de Beauregard, in difficulties after the censorship of The Nun, a movie by Jacques Rivette, that he produced.
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