Chicago Sun-Times: The 400 Blows: Roger Ebert's review.IMDb: Quatre cents coups, Les (1959): Plot summary, cast and crew information, and user comments.The 400 Blows: Les Quatre Cent Coups - Francois Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" is one of the first and most important films of the French new wave of the late 1950's - early 1960's.