Roch Siffredi (Alain Delon) - and yes, this is where the porn star got his name - is out of the big house and looking for his lover Lola (Catherine Rouvel). She's now with François Capella (Jean-Paul Belmondo), another criminal, and while they fight at first they soon become partners.
Rinaldi, a lawyer who works for Marello (Arnoldo Foà) and Poli (André Bollet), helps them take over the fish market, which is fine by the rules of organized crime, but when they take over the meat market, it's revenge time, They kill Poli, but Rinaldi is murdered by a killing machine called The Dancer. Before it's all over, Siffredi and Capella are the new kings, but when Capella tries to leave it all behind, he's killed. Finally, Siffredi decides that his friend had the right plan and gets out of town.
This movie happened because Delon wanted to make a movie with Jean-Paul Belmondo. By the time he was promoting the movie, he wasn't so high on working with the actor, saying "We are still what you in America call pals or buddies. But we are not friends. There is a difference. He was my guest in the film but still he complained. I like him as an actor but as a person, he's a bit different. I think his reaction was a stupid reaction... almost like a female reaction. But I don't want to talk about him anymore."
That's because they had a deal to have their names as equals, yet Delon's production credit came up first. There was even an agreement to split the number of close-ups.
As for the movie, Delon's inspiration was the crime team of French gangsters Carbone and Spirito. There was an idea to have it be about them, but they were worried about using real gangsters.
The title comes from the company who made the fedoras that gangsters wore, Borsalino. Of course, when the movie was released, there was a revival of these hats.
Rinaldi, a lawyer who works for Marello (Arnoldo Foà) and Poli (André Bollet), helps them take over the fish market, which is fine by the rules of organized crime, but when they take over the meat market, it's revenge time, They kill Poli, but Rinaldi is murdered by a killing machine called The Dancer. Before it's all over, Siffredi and Capella are the new kings, but when Capella tries to leave it all behind, he's killed. Finally, Siffredi decides that his friend had the right plan and gets out of town.
This movie happened because Delon wanted to make a movie with Jean-Paul Belmondo. By the time he was promoting the movie, he wasn't so high on working with the actor, saying "We are still what you in America call pals or buddies. But we are not friends. There is a difference. He was my guest in the film but still he complained. I like him as an actor but as a person, he's a bit different. I think his reaction was a stupid reaction... almost like a female reaction. But I don't want to talk about him anymore."
That's because they had a deal to have their names as equals, yet Delon's production credit came up first. There was even an agreement to split the number of close-ups.
As for the movie, Delon's inspiration was the crime team of French gangsters Carbone and Spirito. There was an idea to have it be about them, but they were worried about using real gangsters.
The title comes from the company who made the fedoras that gangsters wore, Borsalino. Of course, when the movie was released, there was a revival of these hats.