Coup de Torchon

Coup de Torchon is a 1981 French film adaptation of Jim Thompsons 1964 novel Pop. 1280, directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film changes the novels setting from a West Texas oil boom town to a small town in French West Africa. The film had 2,199,309 Admissions in France and was the 16th most attended film of the year.

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