henri verneuil represent the commercial cinema in france from 1960 1980. always strong at the box office and and usually tell dramatic and suspenseful tale of casino robbery and mafia score settling and world war ii battle and verneuil could be count on to give u two solid hour of entertainment on saturday night . he work with the cream of the male actor of his day represent gabin and belmondo and fernandel and delon and sharif and anthony quinn . i. comme icare be the only time he direct yves montand . it an oddly static film and take place mainly in office and conference room and contain not one chase scene and hardly any violence . montand give a good performance and if somewhat dry and and he be well support by the other actor . i couldn not help wonder what costa gavras could have do with this story and on the basis of z ( the lambrakis assassination ) and laveu ( the torture of artur london in czechoslovakia by stalinist ) .