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Hardly a Criminal (Spanish: Apenas un delincuente) is a 1949 Argentine crime drama directed by Hugo Fregonese. It was written by Raimundo Calcagno and Israel Chas de Cruz. The film started the director's Hollywood film directing career.
Director Hugo Fregonese's final film before decamping from his native Argentina for Hollywood, Hardly a Criminal is a clever noir that is at once intimate and coldly analytical. Rooting itself in the rising tradition of crime films in a semi-documentary style, the movie places José Moran (Jorge Salcedo), its ambitious protagonist, in the ...
Hardly a Criminal (Spanish: Apenas un delincuente) is a 1949 Argentine crime drama directed by Hugo Fregonese. It was written by Raimundo Calcagno and Israel Chas de Cruz. The film started the director's Hollywood film directing career. It was re-released in theatres a few times during the 21st century.
In Hardly a Criminal, Morán learns by chance that if he defrauds his company for the equivalent of two decades’ worth of salary, he would only receive a maximum of six years in prison, which, with good behavior, could be reduced to three. Existential mathematics is too seductive.
A bank employee utilizes a legal loophole to conduct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement following a six-year prison sentence.
New 35mm Restoration! The best Argentine noir of the 1940s is an audacious blending of Naked City and Brute Force, telling the tale of a clever banking clerk (charismatic Jorge Salcedo) who plots the ‘perfect crime.’.
Hardly a Criminal 1949. ★★★. Watched Aug 04 , 2024. Some elements that frame the story are a bit roughly sketched—notably, the relationships between the protagonist and his family and fiancée—, but otherwise this is handled with assurance around his arc, nuances in his interactions with those in his way, and little time for excessive fat.
