| name = Police Python 357
| name = Police Python 357
| image = Police Python 357.jpg
| image = Police Python 357.jpg
| caption =
| caption =
| director = [[Alain Corneau]]
| director = [[Alain Corneau]]
| based_on = {{based on|”[[The Big Clock]]”<br>1946 novel|[[Kenneth Fearing]]}}
| based_on = {{based on|”[[The Big Clock]]”<br>1946 novel|[[Kenneth Fearing]]}}
* [[Yves Montand]]
* [[Yves Montand]]
* [[Simone Signoret]]
* [[Simone Signoret]]
* [[Mathieu Carrière]]
* [[Stefania Sandrelli]]
}}
}}
| music = [[Georges Delerue]]
| music = [[Georges Delerue]]
| producer = [[Albina du Boisrouvray]]
| producer = [[Albina du Boisrouvray]]
| distributor = Les Films La Boëtie
| distributor = Les Films La Boëtie
| released = {{Film date|1976}}
| released = {{Film date|1976}}
| runtime = 120 minutes
| runtime = 120 minutes
| language = French
| language = French
== Cast ==
== Cast ==
* [[Yves Montand]] as Inspector Marc Ferrot
* [[Yves Montand]] as Inspector Marc Ferrot
* [[Simone Signoret]] as Thérèse Ganay
* [[Simone Signoret]] as Thérèse Ganay
* [[Stefania Sandrelli]] as Sylvia Leopardi
* [[ ]] as
* [[Mathieu Carrière]] as Inspector Ménard
* [[Mathieu Carrière]] as Inspector Ménard
* [[Stefania Sandrelli]] as Sylvia Leopardi
* [[Vadim Glowna]] as Inspector Acadie
* [[Vadim Glowna]] as Inspector Acadie
* [[Claude Bertrand (actor)|Claude Bertrand]] as Merchant of pigs
* [[Claude Bertrand (actor)|Claude Bertrand]] as Merchant of
* [[Serge Marquand]] as “The Red”
* [[Serge Marquand]] as “The Red”
1976 film
Police Python 357 (also known as The Case Against Ferro) is a 1976 French crime-thriller film written and directed by Alain Corneau.[1][2] It is an adaptation of the storyline of Kenneth Fearing‘s 1946 novel, The Big Clock, though with obvious stylistic influences from earlier 70’s police thrillers like Dirty Harry (the film’s opening sequence directly copies that of Magnum Force).
- ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
- ^ Alison Smith (22 July 2005). French Cinema in the 1970s: The Echoes of May. Manchester University Press, 2005. ISBN 0719063418.
