Crime, espionage, and action collide in Maurice Labro’s Le fauve est lâché (US: The Tiger Attacks) starring Lino Ventura as Paul Lamiani, a former gangster reformed as a French Resistance fighter who’s now trying to lead a simpler life as a restaurateur with his wife and children. As is so often the case in noir, however, retirement is a temporary state: when Paulan (François Chaumette) of the French Secret Service comes calling, Lamiani is hard-pressed and ultimately persuaded to take on one more mission: spying on his old gangster friend Raymond Maroux (Paul Frankeur) who may possess secret national security documents. Soon, Lamiani reunites with Maroux at his country home, which is being watched by gangsters who want the documents too. After a deadly ambush, Lamiani ends up in possession of the documents and on the run alone, chased through the tunnels of the magnificent Sea Cliffs of Étretat in Normandy (a setting in which Indiana Jones might have felt at home) and later horrified by the kidnapping of a loved one. Ventura’s natural physicality is on full display here, flipping men across tables and leaping across rocks, and Labro gives us a fairly high body count, including one man shot dead while checking under the hood, another man tossed off a cliff, and (dog lovers beware) even a German Shepherd whacked just for doing its job.