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Based on the real-life memoir of police detective Roger Borniche, Jacques Deray's Flic Story is a gritty policier and true-crime exposé. In 1947, Émile Buisson (Jean-Louis Trintignant), post-liberation France's most notorious criminal, escapes from a mental asylum and embarks on a bloody crime spree. Paris cop Roger Borniche (Alain Delon) is given the thankless job of bringing him in or stopping him dead — through rooftop pursuits, alley stakeouts, nightclub showdowns and car-to-car gun battles — and is driven to the edge of reason, even risking the safety of his lover Catherine (Claudine Auger), to put his nemesis back in a strait-jacket and on death row.