Ebook: Rififi: French Film Guide

"Du rififi chez les hommes" (1955), directed by the exiled American film director Jules Dassin, recounts the nail-biting tale of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. Famed for its extended dialog free robbery sequence, it is both a classic French film noir and one of the greatest, most influential crime films. In this lively companion to the film, Alastair Phillips reveals Dassin's role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir and argues that his seminal contribution to the regeneration of the thriller in post war France therefore uniquely complicated relations betwee.;Acknowledgements; Plot synopsis; Introduction; 1. The Route to Rififi; 2. Reading Rififi; 3. Reviewing Rififi; 4. Reviving Rififi; Appendix 1: Credits; Appendix 2: Jules Dassin filmography; Appendix 3: Auguste Le Breton filmography; Appendix 4: Cited films; Appendix 5: 'Rififi ©¡ travers le monde'; Appendix 6: Select bibliography; Index.