The Trump Card (film)

The Trump Card (French: Dernier atout) is a 1942 French crime film directed by Jacques Becker and starring Mireille Balin, Raymond Rouleau and Pierre Renoir.

[1] The film marked Becker's full debut as a director, although he had briefly worked on Cristobal's Gold in 1940.

During production Becker used the pretext of filming to liaise between French Resistance groups in Paris and the South.

[2] In a Latin American country, two young policeman finish joint top of their graduating detective class.

The case proves however, to have been the murder of a notorious American gangster, killed by his former associates from Chicago.