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A seminal work of crime filmmaking that lead the young critic François Truffaut to declare 'the best Film Noir I have ever seen', Jules Dassin's Rififi has influenced films as diverse as Reservoir Dogs and Ocean's Eleven since its release.
Following Tony, le Stéphanois (Jean Servais), a master thief fresh out of jail, wearing a harried look and suffering ill health he refuses to be involved with crime, until he finds his girlfriend shacked up with a rival gangster. With little reason to keep living he plans a final job. Tony sets about finding his crew and meticulously planning the job; a robbery of the jewellery store Mappin & Webb. Rififi revolves around the central heist, famed for its finite detail and incredible tension, but the drama does not end at the heist like so many other crime films. Dassin's film is a humanist tale that hinges on the loyalty among thieves and draws on the fatalistic, doom laden lives common to crooks and thieves in pulp literature.
Cast:
Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Janine Darcey