The Film: Blacklisted American director, Jules Dassin, retreated to France in order to plan the perfect heist movie. Taking author Auguste Le Breton's pulpy novel and turning it into something ultimately better on the screen, Dassins Rififi follows a now classic template aging criminal takes on a seemingly impossible theft but enhances it with an engaging score, gritty characters and a robbery that needs to be seen to be believed. Classic Moment: The films centrepiece heist: running for half an hour with not a word of dialogue spoken and the score paused this is quite simply the best robbery ever committed to celluloid.
Shaun is a former contributor for a number of Future Publishing titles and more recently worked as a staffer at Imagine Publishing.
He can now be found banking in the daytime and writing a variety of articles for What Culture, namely around his favourite topics of film, retro gaming, music, TV and, when he's feeling clever, literature.
