When the prize at the center of a caper is a young woman named Toboggan, you know it's going to be an exhilarating ride, or at least downhill. Based on the novel Black Friday, a study of pent-up rivalries in a claustrophobic safe house, director Clément's criminal act involves a hideout, but the eventual heist has the young lady, not Goodis's loads of loot, as its quarry. Back at the lair, we find Robert Ryan (at the tail end of his tough career), the mastermind of this den of thieves. His favored sidekicks are the moronic Mattone (played by ham-fisted Aldo Ray) and Sugar (Lea Massari), a floozy who bakes. Into this hideaway stumbles a French fugitive named Froggy (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who must convince the gang to keep him, not kill him. The original French title translates as “the flight of a rabbit through the fields.” And sure enough, Froggy darts frantically forward with hare-like propulsion, keeping ahead of the fate that hounds him.