Alan Delon plays a Good Samaritan in "Borsalino" director Jacques Deray's thriller "Trois hommes à abattre" who finds himself up to his ears in hot water for his good deed. In a sense, Delon is an innocent bystander who has done nothing wrong but finds himself the object of a man hunt. This film contains some nudity. Otherwise, it is no great shakes with minimal suspense and tension. Gambler Michel Gerfaut is cruising to a nocturnal poker game when he wheels up onto an auto accident and finds a survivor. He takes the crash victim to the hospital, but he doesn't stick around long enough for the hospital to get his name. The doomed man and two other men are gunned down by assassins and the assassins go after our hero because he might have heard something that the dying man said. Guess what? Gerfaut didn't hear anything. Nevertheless, the assassins aren't inclined to let loose ends dangle. They struggle to drown him in the ocean and try to lure him into a phone booth. Eventually, our paranoid protagonist consults an old friend who is a police inspector. The police inspector checks out his apartment. Our hero discovers that two men had been looking for him from his landlord. Not long afterward, somebody knocks at Gerfaut's door but the inspector answers it. The assassin on the other side of the door fires his silenced automatic pistol through the peep hole in the door. When they see our hero exit the building, they realize that they haven't knocked off the right man. A careening car chase ensues and Gerfaut has a shoot out with them. The authorities believe that Gerfaut may have shot the inspector. Meantime, our hero's girlfriend has a close call when she encounters one of her friend's assassins. Eventually, the man who wants Gerfaut killed requests that he come unarmed to his residence. The man is so sure that Gerfaut had a conversation with the dead man that he reacts with incredulity that Gerfaut didn't hear anything. Ironically, the engineer dies, and Gerfaut leaves. Veteran stunt driver Remy Julienne staged the chase sequence. Altogether, "Trois hommes à abattre" is a routine thriller with at least on usage of the F-bomb.
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