Custom image of Jean Servais as Tony "le Stéphanois" from Rififi against a yellow background
The Big Picture Cinema is littered with some truly astounding, gripping, nerve-wrangling heist films. Steven Soderbergh's Oceans films, classics like Dog Day Afternoon and A Fish Called Wanda, and practically every film by the French director Jean-Pierre Melville are just some of the masterful works of art from the genre. But there is one film, with one very particular heist scene, that stands above the rest: Rififi by the American director Jules Dassin.
Release Date June 5, 1956 Director Jules Dassin Cast Jean Servais , Carl Möhner , Robert Manuel , Janine Darcey , Pierre Grasset , Robert Hossein , Marcel Lupovici , Dominique Maurin Runtime 118 Minutes Main Genre Crime Writers Auguste Le Breton , Jules Dassin , René Wheeler Studio Pathé Expand 'Rififi' Makes Silence the Deadliest Sound Most viewers that come to Rififi, or Du rififi chez les hommes as it's known in France, come to the film because they have heard of...
The thieves complete their job with surgical precision as the audience is left breathless at what has unfolded before their very eyes. Dassin's brave and bold decision to choose silence for this scene, where his film-making cannot hide behind music and dialogue, lends itself to the jeopardy of the scene too, as if he too is committing a heist much like his characters.
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