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Rififi (1955) | User Rating
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Original title: Du rififi chez les hommes
Release Date
Jul 21, 2000 (USA, re-release)
DVD Release Date
• R1: Apr 24, 2001
Running Time
2 hours, 0 minutes
Country France
Studio Gaumont, Indusfilms, Rialto Films, Societe Nouvelle Pathé Cinema
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Rififi (1955)
• Brawl Among the Men
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Genre: Crime, Thriller, Suspense, Thieves, Betrayal, Gangsters, Kidnapping, Murder, Cult Classic, Drugs, Capers
Tagline: ["Rififi"] ...means Trouble!
Plot: A banner film that broke through standards of accepted language, dialogue, gun violence, and crime on screen and stylized the film noir genre, Jules Dassin's 1954 film RIFIFI was an instant success. Based on the novel of the same title, DU RIFIFI CHEZ LES HOMMES by Auguste le Breton, the film's use of hard-boiled slang and the gangster garb of trench coats, top hats, and a cigarette dangling from one corner of the mouth went on to become the emblems of Humphrey Bogart-style noir classics.In RIFIFI, a hardened man, Tony le Stephanois (Jean Servais) is released from prison after five years to find that his woman has shacked up with another gangster, and the life he had planned to return to no longer exists. Down on his luck and without a dime in his pocket, he rounds up his old crime buddies--who drink and smoke all night assembled around the poker table--and agrees to commit one last crime: a jewel heist. For weeks the men plan, studying the alarm system and working out each detail of the break-in. When it actually comes time to perform the robbery, their actions are perfectly choreographed, their methods precise and successful, and they walk away untouched with millions of dollars of jewels. However, there's a hitch, and what was meant to be the perfect crime turns into a
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| Cast |
Jean Servais
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Sink the Bismarck!, Celui qui doit mourir, Fluch der grünen Augen, Der | Robert Manuel
The Razor's Edge, The Black Tulip, Voici le temps des assassins | Jules Dassin
Pote tin Kyriaki, Phaedra, The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides | | | Claude Sylvain
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Georges Auric
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