In 1966, producer Georges de Beauregard approached Jean-Luc Godard with an offer to make a film using available funds on short notice. Godard agreed and initially proposed adapting Donald E. Westlake's crime novel "The Jugger." However, when the resulting movie, titled *Made in U.S.A.*, was completed, Godard intentionally moved away from a straightforward adaptation, utilizing the novel’s basic plot as a framework to…