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.
Director(s): Jules Dassin
Cast: Robert Manuel, Carl Mohner, Jean Servais
Run Time: 1h 58min
Cinema Date: 1955
Distributor: Arrow Films
Director(s): Jules Dassin
Cast: Robert Manuel, Carl Mohner, Jean Servais
Run Time: 1h 58min
Cinema Date: 1955
Distributor: Arrow Films