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Rififi / Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes
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6 /10
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8.70 /10
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| Starring |
Jean Servais  , Carl Mohner, Robert Manuel |
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Directed by: Jules Dassin
Written by: Jules Dassin, Rene Wheeler, Auguste Le Breton from Le Breton's novel
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| Released: |
1955 |
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FOREIGN
THRILLER
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France |
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| Colour: |
BW |
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| Length: |
116 |
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Four criminals plan and execute a jewel robbery, with unforeseen results.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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The blacklisted American director Jules Dassin went to France and made this tense thriller with one of the most famous robbery sequences ever - it takes up a sizeable chunk of the film, and there isn't a word of dialogue or note of background music. The brilliantly executed heist scene has been imitated many times - most memorably, perhaps, in Mission: Impossible (1996).
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Though the security measures which the thieves overcome now look laughably tame, Rififi was violent and realistic for its time, with memorably sleazy scenes of the Parisian underworld.
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The film takes half its length to get going, but from the heist onwards it is intensely gripping. It won Dassin Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival.
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