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"A criminal gang plans an elaborate jewel robbery. What is distinctive in the telling is the straightforward way Huston humanises the criminals while showing their professional approach to crime as 'a left-handed form of human endeavour'. In place of psychosis are all-to-human weaknesses so that the failure of endeavour is not so much fated as fortuitous. The sense of irony and alienation - the police are portrayed as the agents of a hostile world - is, however, wholly noir."@en
"À peine sorti de prison, Doc Riedenschneider met minutieusement au point le cambriolage du coffre d'une importante bijouterie. Il s'adjoint des complices, à chacun desquels est confiée une fonction précise et il s'assure de la disposition du butin grâce aux bons soins d'un avocat malhonnête. Le coup réussit, mais l'alerte est donnée et, l'un après l'autre, les criminels sont capturés ou tués. [(c) Médiafilm] [SDM] Avec Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen."
"Feature film from the USA. Crime. A seemingly perfect million-dollar jewellery store robbery goes horribly wrong after the fact."
"An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last heist. Based on the book by W.R. Burnett."@en
"An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last heist. Based on the book by W.R. Burnett."
""'Doc' Riedenschneider, legendary crime 'brain' just out of prison, has a brilliant plan for a million-dollar burglary. To pull it off, he recruits safecracker Louis, driver Gus, financial backer Emmerich, and strong-arm man Dix Handley. At first the plan goes like clockwork, but little accidents accumulate and each partner proves to have his own fatal weakness. In the background is a pervasive, grimy urban malaise."--IMDB."
"When criminal mastermind Doc Riedenschneider is released from prison, he approaches his lawyer with a plan for the biggest jewel heist in history."@en
"An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last heist."
"This story of a million-dollar jewel heist in a bleak and nameless midwestern city focuses on the criminals themselves, their loyalties, their failings, and the details of their profession. The mastermind of the caper is Doc Riedenschneider and his team of specialists is composed of Louis Ciavelli, the safecracker, Gus Minissi, the driver, and Dix Handley, the "hooligan." When Riedenschneider is released from prison, he approaches lawyer Alonzo Emmerich with a plan for the biggest jewel heist in history. Emmerich not only gives Doc the needed money but also offers to fence the jewels. Doc carefully rehearses the seemingly fail-safe plan with his team, but Emmerich has a shady, double-crossing plan of his own."
"When criminal mastermind Doc Riedenschneider is released from prison, he approaches lawyer Alonzo Emmerich with a plan for the biggest jewel heist in history. Emmerich plans to double-cross the thieves and flee the country."@en
"When criminal mastermind Doc Riedenschneider is released from prison, he approaches lawyer Alonzo Emmerich with a plan for the biggest jewel heist in history. A classic crime film, known to many as the movie that brought Marilyn Monroe to fame."@en
"Tension builds as a couple of small-time losers plan a jewel heist. The plot of this classic crime thriller has been borrowed many times, but John Huston's tight direction gave the film a powerful urgency that has yet to be rivaled."@en
"An elderly crook is released from prison and assembles a gang for the biggest jewel heist in history. But one of the conspirators is planning to double-cross the thieves and flee the country with the loot."@en
"When criminal mastermind Doc Riedenschneider is released from prison, he approaches lawyer Alonzo Emmerich with a plan for the biggest jewel heist in history. Doc carefully selects and rehearses his team, but Emmerich is planning to double-cross the thieves and flee the country with the loot."@en
"A Well-planned jewel heist, is double-crossed by one of the partners resulting in a suspenseful, classic crime film."@en
"Uscito dal carcere, un elegante ladro di gioielli cerca i complici per attuare il piano preparato in cella. Ma la sorte è sfavorevole ai rapinatori che moriranno uno ad uno. (Mereghetti)."@it
"When criminal mastermind, Doc Riedenschneider, is released from prison, he approaches his lawyer with a plan for the biggest jewel heist in history."