The Outside Man (1972)
If you kill the most powerful man in organized crime, they've got the rest of your life to get you.
Genre : Crime, Thriller
Runtime : 1H 44M
Director : Jacques Deray
Writer : Jean-Claude Carrière, Ian McLellan Hunter, Jacques Deray
Synopsis
A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.
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