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...means Trouble!
Certificate: 12
Running Time: 118 mins
Retail Price: £17.99
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Synopsis:
In Jules Dassin's classic noir Rififi, Jean Servais plays Tony le Stephanois, a master thief with a battered face and a tubercular cough, souvenirs of a recent stint in the pen. The aging Tony is reluctant to return to a life of crime, but when he realises his girlfriend has thrown him over for a rival gangster, he agrees to attempt one last job. Together with three collaborators — a young father, a boisterous Franco-Italian, and a sentimental Milanese safecracker — Tony meticulously engineers his biggest heist yet: robbing the most heavily guarded jewelry store in Paris. Highlighted by its celebrated half hour wordless robbery sequence, Francois Truffaut once hailed Rififi as "The best film noir I've ever seen".

Special Features:
Q & A with Jules Dassin at the NFT
TV review and Jules Dassin interview
1955 original theatrical trailer
Production stills

Video Tracks:
Standard 1.33:1

Subtitle Tracks:
English

Directed By:
Jules Dassin

Written By:
René Wheeler
Jules Dassin
Auguste Le Breton

Starring:
Marie Sabouret
Jules Dassin
Robert Manuel
Carl Möhner
Jean Servais

Soundtrack By:
M. Philippe-Gérard
Georges Auric

Director of Photography:
Philippe Agostini

Editor:
Roger Dwyre

Costume Designer:
Rosine Delamare

Production Designer:
Alexandre Trauner
Auguste Capelier

Producer:
René Gaston Vuattoux
Pierre Cabaud
Henri Bérard
René Bezard