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Pépé le Moko
FRANCE · 1937

Pépé le Moko

Julien Duvivier
black and white algeria wanted man algiers, algeria criminal gang
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Synopsis

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.

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