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Pp le Moko pe.pe l mo.ko is a 1937 French film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Jean Gabin.

Pp le Moko, a criminal on the run from the police in metropolitan France, lives in the Casbah quarter of Algiers, where he is out of reach of the local police. Inspector Slimane seeks a way to lure Pp out of his refuge. He sees his chance when he learns that Pp is in love with Gaby, the mistress of a rich businessman. Slimane leads Gaby to believe that Pp had been killed. Gaby, who was on the point of joining him in his hiding place, now agrees to stay with her rich lover. When Pp is informed that Gaby is about to leave Algiers for good he leaves the Casbah to find her and is arrested.English author Graham Greene in a review of the film stated One of the most exciting and moving films I can remember seeing... Raises the thriller to a poetic level According to a BBC documentary, it served as inspiration for Greenes acclaimed novel, The Third Man. ........

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