Made in U.S.A

1967 85 min ★ 6.1 Crime, Mystery, Comedy

Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis, a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.

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Cast

Anna Karina

Paula Nelson

László Szabó

Paul Widmark

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Donald Siegel

Marianne Faithfull

Yves Afonso

David Goodis

Claude Bakka

Man with Marianne Faithfull (uncredited)

Daniel Bart

Policeman (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Biesse

Richard Nixon (uncredited)

Jean-Claude Bouillon

Inspector Aldrich (uncredited)

Fernand Coquet

Bill Poster (uncredited)

Details

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Status

Released

Original Language

FR

Budget

$50,000

Production

S.E.P.I.C., Rome-Paris Films, Anouchka Films

Reviews

C

CRCulver

August 14, 2018

★ 6/10

In 1966 Jean-Luc Godard was approached by producer Georges de Beauregard, who said that he had some money he needed to spend and asked if Godard could make a film on very short notice. Godard said sure, and proposed adapting a pulp crime novel (Donald E. Westlake's "The Jugger"). But when Godard made the film, which would get the title <i>Made in U.S.A.</i>, he did everything possible to brea...