Rififi

by Alastair Phillips

"Du rififi chez les hommes" (1955), directed by the exiled American film director Jules Dassin, recounts the nail-biting tale of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. Famed for its extended dialog free robbery sequence, it is both a classic French film noir and one of the greatest, most influential crime films. In this lively companion to the film, Alastair Phillips reveals Dassin's role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848850557
• ISBN13: 9781848850552
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.3"