Directed by John HustonMy rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros)
Heist film that set the blueprint for all heist films that followed. Sam Jaffe is excellent as the old German doctor recently released from prison. He's got a plan for the ultimate heist and assembles the necessary gang to do it. He needs a "box man", a "driver" and a "hooligan" to pull off the actual heist, but also needs money to back the plan and a fence to get rid of the goods. He finds these people in the backstabbing underground of an American big city. When things start to go wrong, true personalities start to emerge. One by one, the participants are either arrested or die, until there is only one left in the memorable ending. Impact today is somewhat dulled by the plethora of more graphic heist films since, but it excels at characterization that others sometimes overlook.
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