Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Excellent adaptation.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Incredibly trashy French thriller about on-the-run outlaw Marvin who seeks refuge on a French farm only to find demented peasants there. The film features a collection of perverts, lunatics, degenerates, and oddball situations which are often original and sometimes amusing. Everyone in this film wants to kill something, including even the grandma (who kills herself), and the boy (wants to kill Marvin). Could have been a better film if only some of the acting (some of the cops, the older brother, and the pimps/gangsters) were better, and if the dialog were less boring and cleverer. The music is bad, especially at the beginning, where it sounds like a porno movie soundtrack. The plot and the premise are good, but the script, with its crap dialog and comic-book characters, is a mediocrity. Some of the acting was not bad (Marvin, the boy, Miou-Miou, and the nymphomaniac). What the hell kind of a name is Miou-Miou?

This film was just downright depressing for me as a sleaze-movie lover and a fan of the great Lee Marvin. It had all the right elements, but the director, Yves Boisset, really screwed this film up. I blame him for everything that is wrong with it. His direction is so sloppy and third-rate I couldn't even tell what the hell was going on half the time. It could have been an interesting, if somewhat disturbing, black comedy. As other reviewers have stated, there are similarities between this film and Marvin's Prime Cut, but that film found a good balance between the repulsive and the humorous. This one fails on almost every level. It isn't even worthy enough to go into detail of its flaws. Also, Lee Marvin is totally wasted in this film. Once the first 5 minutes are over he is given absolutely nothing to do. Boisset had this incredible actor in the twilight of his career to work with. He could have made it into a sort of Last Great Film for the man, a study of a bad guy at the end of his life played by an actor famous for playing bad guys near the end of his life. Instead, that honor goes to Gorky Park. But I guess none of that really matters as Marvin was very sick during the making of this film, and you can tell. He seems tired, bored, and physically he looks haggard and ill. You can practically see his skull through his skin. This is NOT the way you will want to remember this great actor, so please, if you like Lee Marvin, do yourself a favor and honor his memory by never ever watching this movie. You have been warned.

Watch the two movies together for an example of a good film and a bad one with the same themes. No one is good in this one, and that goes for the acting as well as the morality. The family is depraved and watching Lee Marvin go through his 'take the illegal money, eye the women, escape the pursuers' bit is incredibly boring.Skip it. A real waste of film, despite the VanGogh beauty of the golden fields of southern France.

Horrible, completely ridiculous with a not so slight touch of vulgarity. Lee Marvin is completely lost in this awful and irrealistic world. No interest.