Crime Wave
('La chase au gang' by François Truffaut (written under the pseudonym Robert Lachenay), Cahiers du Cinema 38, August-September 1954)
A one-eyed director, Hollywood's André de Toth, would be king if Hollywood were blind. That's not the case, heaven forbid, and de Toth's uses his cyclops eye like a lynx, it is not resting in his pocket. A likeable man, de Toth makes likeable films but not without nobility, the noble man that he is. Crime Wave is one…