Dog Day

1984 [FRENCH]

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 48%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 48% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 1362 1.4K

Plot summary

A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.

Director

Yves Boisset Photo
Yves Boisset

Top cast

Jean Carmet Photo
Jean Carmet as Socrate
Bernadette Lafont Photo
Bernadette Lafont as Ségolène
Lee Marvin Photo
Lee Marvin as Jimmy Cobb
David Bennent Photo
David Bennent as Chim
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
910.83 MB
1280*546
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 2
1.65 GB
1920*818
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MadCow5703

Depressing

This film was just downright depressing for me as a sleaze-movie lover and a fan of the great Lee Marvin. It had all the right elements, but the director, Yves Boisset, really screwed this film up. I blame him for everything that is wrong with it. His direction is so sloppy and third-rate I couldn't even tell what the hell was going on half the time. It could have been an interesting, if somewhat disturbing, black comedy. As other reviewers have stated, there are similarities between this film and Marvin's Prime Cut, but that film found a good balance between the repulsive and the humorous. This one fails on almost every level. It isn't even worthy enough to go into detail of its flaws. Also, Lee Marvin is totally wasted in this film. Once the first 5 minutes are over he is given absolutely nothing to do. Boisset had this incredible actor in the twilight of his career to work with. He could have made it into a sort of Last Great Film for the man, a study of a bad guy at the end of his life played by an actor famous for playing bad guys near the end of his life. Instead, that honor goes to Gorky Park. But I guess none of that really matters as Marvin was very sick during the making of this film, and you can tell. He seems tired, bored, and physically he looks haggard and ill. You can practically see his skull through his skin. This is NOT the way you will want to remember this great actor, so please, if you like Lee Marvin, do yourself a favor and honor his memory by never ever watching this movie. You have been warned.
Reviewed by Chase_Witherspoon 6 / 10

Farmhouse freaks fight for francs and freedom

Not to be underestimated, this French black comedy of sorts stars Marvin in one of his last film roles as a fugitive bank robber, but he's really more of a plot device to showcase the crazy antics of his French co-stars, each with their own offbeat characterisation proving more dangerous than Marvin himself.Lovely Miou-Miou is the film's leading lady, a captive farming wife of an abusive husband (Lanoux) who sees Marvin as her opportunity for emancipation. Man-child Bennent is a highlight playing a smart-mouthed inbred kid, himself a victim of the Lanoux character's rough handedness who clues onto Marvin's gambit from the outset, setting himself up as the hero of the ensuing farce making for a satisfying climax.Also grabbing the attention is Bernadette Lafont playing one of the toothless farmhouse occupants with a comically lubricious lust for carnality. Virtually the entire cast play a whacky assortment of oddballs, offset (ironically) by Marvin as the only predictable character in the plot. Apart from Marvin, the only other native English-speaker in the cast is Tina Louise in a small supporting role as one of Marvin's accomplices during the opening heist.Well photographed with sharp dialogue, a catchy bass guitar sound and overall sympathetic characters, 'Dog Day' might be an unknown quantity for most casual Marvin fans, but is surely worth a look if you're open-minded to a bit of depraved French farmhouse farce.
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