Here's a review I did of The Naked City. Other favorites include Brute Force, a little-known Burt Lancaster prison movie, and the brilliant Rififi, which Dassin made in France after being blacklisted in the States, and against which I must compare all other heist flicks. Wikipedia says about the film, "The film's legendary 'heist sequence' not present in its source novel was an invention of the director and has since been imitated on countless occasions." This was undoubtedly the case with the break-in scene in The Bank Job, which I just saw last week.Jules Dassin lived a good long life, like all great directors should.
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