Max and the Junkmen (1971) on Netflix
Max is a police inspector obsessed with catching criminals. Posing as a small bank's director, he steers Abel, a scrap thief, and Abel's companion Lily toward a robbery.
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Max is the son of a wealthy French wine-growing family and has given his life to one aim: putting criminals behind bars. Now a police inspector, he is still bothered by a band of burglars who slipped away from him. He meets Abel, who steals scrap and plunders construction sites around Nanterre with a small group of hoodlums, and decides to push them into a big job and seize them in the act. Pretending to be the head of a small bank branch that receives large sums at regular intervals, he gets close to Lily, a German-born prostitute and Abel's companion, and wins the backing of his commissioner, while hiding that he set the whole thing in motion. A feeling grows between Max and Lily, though he keeps his distance and works on the band through her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Max and the Junkmen (1971)
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- Producers suggested Alain Delon and Yves Montand for the part of Max, while Catherine Deneuve and Marlène Jobert were sought for Lily; Jobert turned the film down rather than play a sex worker, and Romy Schneider took the role.
- Max et les Ferrailleurs was an international France–Italy co-production, and Rome's Fida Cinematografica ended up contributing only 20 dollars of its 4 million franc budget.
