Made in U.S.A. (1966 film)

Made in U.S.A is a 1966 French film directed by JeanLuc Godard. It stars Anna Karina, JeanPierre Laud, Lszl Szab and Yves Afonso. It was inspired by the Howard Hawks film The Big Sleep and unofficially based on the novel The Jugger, by Richard Stark a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake. Because neither Godard nor the producer paid the books adaptation rights and following legal action by Westlake, the film was long unavailable in the United States. The film had its U.S. premiere on April 1, 2009 three months after Westlakes death at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in a newly restored print distributed by Rialto Pictures. Criterion released the film on DVD in July 2009.

The movie was shot at the same time as Two or Three Things I Know About Her. Godard did it to help his friend and producer, Georges de Beauregard, in difficulties after the censorship of The Nun, a movie by Jacques Rivette, that he produced.citation needed This is the last fulllength movie where Anna Karina and JeanLuc Godard collaborated. He again directed her in a segment called Anticipation, ou lamour en lan 2000 Anticipation or Love in the Year 2000 of the movie Le plus vieux mtier du monde 1967. ........

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