Rene the Cane

René la Canne was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone coming after Le Trio Infernal 1974 and before La Banquière 1980 His film is an adaptation of a story by Roger Borniche about the gangster René Girier and relates the fantastic adventures of a flamboyant mobster RenéGérard Depardieu and a maverick police inspector Fernand la SournoiseMichel Piccoli through the 1940s