Le Doulos

Le Doulos
Directed byJean-Pierre Melville
Written byJean-Pierre Melville
Based ona novel
by Pierre Lesou
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyNicolas Hayer
Edited byMonique Bonnot
Music byPaul Misraki
Production
companies
  • Rome-Paris Film
  • C.C. Champion
Distributed by
  • Lux-Films
  • CCF
Release date
  • 13 December 1962 (1962-12-13) (Italy)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office1,475,391 admissions

Le Doulos (French pronunciation: [ dulos]) is a 1962 French crime film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, adapted from the novel of the same name by Pierre Lesou. It was released theatrically as The Finger Man in the English-speaking world, but all video and DVD releases have used the French title. Intertitles at the beginning of the film explain that the French title refers both to a kind of hat and to the slang term for a police informant.