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Made in U.S.A.
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Directed by	Jean-Luc Godard
Produced by	Georges de Beauregard
Written by	Jean-Luc Godard Donald E. Westlake
Starring	Anna Karina Jean-Pierre Léaud
Music by	Robert Schuman Ludwig van Beethoven
Cinematography	Raoul Coutard
Release date(s)	1966
Running time	90 min.
Language	French
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Made in U.S.A is a 1966 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Greatly inspired by the Howard Hawks film The Big Sleep and unofficially based on the novel The Jugger, by Richard Stark (aka Donald E. Westlake), it stars Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó and Yves Afonso. Because neither Godard nor the producer paid the book's adaptation rights and following legal action by Westlake, the film has been more or less unavailable in the United States.

Paula Nelson (Anna Karina), a female version of Humphrey Bogart's hard boiled detectives, goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, at an unknown point in the future (maybe 1969). Once there, she learns that Richard is dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, who she ends up knocking out. His dead corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis (Yves Afonso), a writer.^[1] Paula is arrested to be interrogated because of the death of Typhys. From then on, she encounters many gangsters, who are all dead by the end of the movie.

• Anna Karina as Paula Nelson
• Jean-Pierre Léaud as Donald Siegel`
• László Szabó as Richard Widmark
• Marianne Faithfull as Herself
• Ernest Menzer as Edgar Typhus
• Kyôko Kosaka as Doris Mizoguchi
• Yves Afonso as David Goodis
• Marc Dudicourt as Barman
• Rémo Forlani as Workman in bar
• Jean-Luc Godard as Richard Politzer (voice)
• Sylvain Godet as Robert MacNamara
• Claude Bouillon as Inspector Aldrich
• Claude Bakka as Man with Marianne Faithfull
• Philippe Labro as Himself
• Jean-Pierre Biesse as Richard Nixon

The movie was shot at the same time as Two or Three Things I Know About Her. Godard did it to help his friend and producer, Georges de Beauregard, in difficulties after the censure of La Religieuse, a movie by Jacques Rivette, that he produced.^{[citation needed]}

This is the last full-length movie where Anna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard collaborated. He again directed her in a segment (called "Anticipation, ou: l'amour en l'an 2000" (Anticipation: or Love in the Year 2000)) of the movie Le plus vieux métier du monde (1967).

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Marianne Faithfull has a cameo in a cafe scene where she sings "As Tears Go By".

• Made in U.S.A. at the Internet Movie Database
• Made in U.S.A. at All Movie Guide

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