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Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
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It took an experienced US director, Jules Dassin, who has lived in France some years, to give the French gangster pic the proper tension, mounting and treatment. This pic has something intrinsically Gallic without sacrificing the rugged storytelling.
The film turns moralistic and sour in the last half, when the thieves fall out.
A familiar but effective parable of honor among thieves.
Actually rather overrated, lacking the tension, profundity, and vivid characterisation of similar films.
This is perhaps the keenest crime film that ever came from France, including Pepe le Moko and some of the best of Louis Jouvet and Jean Gabin.
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Drama · Not Rated
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The Underneath (1995)
Crime · Drama · Thriller · R
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Party Girl (1995)
Comedy · Drama · Romance · R
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The Human Jungle (1954)
Crime · Thriller · APPROVED
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a...
Hue and Cry (1947)
Adventure · Comedy · Crime · N/A
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
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