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.
![]() Poster for original release of Rififi (1955). |
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