Der Panther

At 50 years of age, Alain Delon was just as hunky as ever, in a different way from his Purple Noon days -- more built, more rugged, incredibly handsome rather than pretty. In short, fabulous.

Delon here plays Daniel Pratt, an ex-police officer whose daughter was killed by a vigilante group that goes around shooting criminals. Her boyfriend was a thief and takes her along on a robbery, though she objects and urges him not to be involved. The hooded vigilantes kill all of them.

Pratt, living on an island now, travels to France with the idea of seeking revenge.

Delon, who formed his own production company in the '70s, co-wrote, produced, starred in, and even sang the song over the final credits, I Don't Know, with Phyllis Nelson. José Pinheiro directed.

Delon, of course, showcases himself at 50, doing a difficult gym workout, fighting, jumping, running, and letting us see his chest. Toward the end of the film, he does a circus clown act. It was all fine with me.

In the final song, Nelson has a terrific voice, and Delon and his French accent provide the sex.

You can see I'm a bit prejudiced.

It is far to be the best film of Alain Delon. First, for the flat story, for the action/revenge who desires resurrect the cop thriller, for the impression to be just a pretext for admire the physical condition of Delon. For him, nothing new, after a long experience in the filmography of this French genre, all seems be reduced at the clichés. Many, nice for the fans of action films, predictable, proposing the image of stranger who has the only purpose his revenge. So, few spectacular scenes, a form of love story and not the most inspired dialogues.

This is for me the best movie Alain Delon ever did, look at his physical condition at the age of fifty, there's a lot of Action in it with great stunts performed by Delon himself! It also is a violent movie ,but you'll only see that in the uncut french version, the TV-versions and DVD's at least in Germany are heavily cut. The story is a kind of revenge for my daughter story written by Alain Delon himself who also produced the movie and sang the chanson at the credits!

Don't expect too much dialogue if you like that I would recommend that you watch Delon in Un Amour de Swann, Swimming Pool and of course Plein Soleil. It's a very hard to find movie in Germany, even more if you like to watch it uncut.

Poor Fact Delon's or even other French Actor's Movies recent Movies are not shown in German Theaters,but premiered at Cable TV.

The worst of Alain Delon, the kind of film he should have avoided to do, a pure garbage, far worst than LE BATTANT, NE REVEILLEZ PAS UN FLIC QUI DORT, LE CHOC, all made in the eighties. Delon was the producer and his love for himself, for his image, is for me purely unbearable. But, despite this, believe it or not, he will remain one of the best French actor ever, with of course Jean Gabin. Delon will always be for me LE SAMOURAI, LE CERCLE ROUGE, PLEIN SOLEIL. But, after the late seventies, he was not the same anymore, and this junk, which I talk about now, is the best example. Predictable, boring. Forget it.