Symphony for a Massacre (1963)
A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.
Top billed cast
Michel AuclairClavet
Claude DauphinValoti
Charles VanelPaoli
Jean RochefortJabeke
Michèle MercierMadeleine Clavet
José GiovanniMoreau
Daniela RoccaHélène Valoti
Marcello PaglieroCerutti (uncredited)
Claude Cerval(uncredited)
Jean DegraveGames room employee (uncredited)
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