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With its giddily complex noir plot and color-drenched widescreen images, Made in U.S.A was a final burst of exuberance from Jean-Luc Godard’s early sixties barrage of delirious movie-movies. Yet this chaotic crime thriller and acidly funny critique of consumerism—starring Anna Karina as the most brightly dressed private investigator in film history, searching for a former lover who might have been assassinated—also points toward the more political cinema that would come to define Godard. Featuring characters with names such as Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara, David Goodis, and Doris Mizoguchi, and appearances by a slapstick Jean-Pierre Léaud and a sweetly singing Marianne Faithfull, this piece of pop art is like a Looney Tunes rendition of The Big Sleep gone New Wave.
Original Release
12/03/1966
US Release
09/27/1967
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Anna Karina | Paula Nelson / Paula Nelson (as AK) |
László Szabó | Richard Widmark / Richard Widmark (as LS) |
Jean-Pierre Leaud | Donald Siegel (as JPL) / Donald Siegel |
Marianne Faithfull | Marianne Faithfull (as MF) / Marianne Faithfull |
Yves Afonso | David Goodis / David Goodis (as YA) |
Claude Bakka | Man with Marianne Faithfull |
Daniel Bart | Policeman |
Jean-Pierre Biesse | Richard Nixon |
Jean-Claude Bouillon | Inspector Aldrich |
Fernand Coquet | Bill Poster |
Directors
Writers
Jean-Luc Godard, Donald E. Westlake
Cast
Name | Character |
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Anna Karina | Paula Nelson / Paula Nelson (as AK) |
László Szabó | Richard Widmark / Richard Widmark (as LS) |
Jean-Pierre Leaud | Donald Siegel (as JPL) / Donald Siegel |
Marianne Faithfull | Marianne Faithfull (as MF) / Marianne Faithfull |
Yves Afonso | David Goodis / David Goodis (as YA) |
Claude Bakka | Man with Marianne Faithfull |
Daniel Bart | Policeman |
Jean-Pierre Biesse | Richard Nixon |
Jean-Claude Bouillon | Inspector Aldrich |
Fernand Coquet | Bill Poster |
Marc Dudicourt | Barman |
Rémo Forlani | Workman in bar |
Eliane Giovagnoli | Dental Assistant |
Jean-Luc Godard | Richard Politzer |
Sylvain Godet | Robert MacNamara |
Anne Guegan | Girl in Bandages |
Kyôko Kosaka | Doris Mizoguchi |
Philippe Labro | Self |
Rita Maiden | Woman Who Gives Paula Information |
Ernest Menzer | Edgar Typhus |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Georges de Beauregard | Producer |
Clément Steyaert | Producer |