Poster for original release of Rififi (1955).
Brute Force (1947)
The Naked City (1948)
Thieves' Highway (1949)
Night and the City (1950)
Rififi (1955)
Born 18 December 1911, Middletown, Connecticut, USA.
Jules Dassin is about to be rediscovered with the re-release of the
virtually unobtainable gem Rififi (1955). However, Dassin is
also the director behind Brute
Force (1947), The Naked City (1948), Thieves'
Highway
(1949), Night and the City, (1950)---the latter three
shot
on location in their respective cities, New York, San Francisco, and
London---that
earned him renown as an American "neo-realist." But just
as he was gaining recognition as a director, he was forced into exile in
Europe as a result of the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings,
in which he was one of the people the HUAC forced Edward
Dmytryk to identify as communist.
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Poster for original release of Rififi (1955). |
Brute Force (1947)
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