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Jan 14, 2014 · Indeed, Melville was originally slated to direct Rififi, but producer Henri Bérard saw the opportunity to employ a known Hollywood director who was already a cause célèbre in France.
Dassin received an offer from an agent in Paris, France where he met producer Henri Bérard who had acquired the rights to Auguste Le Breton's popular crime novel Du Rififi chez les hommes. [1] Bérard chose Dassin due to the major success in France of Dassin's previous film The Naked City .
Jan 4, 2011 · Aware of Dassin's accomplishments as a director of American noir and sympathetic to his plight, the French producer Henri Bérard approached him with the adaptation of Auguste Le Breton's 1953 novel Du Rififi chez les hommes.
René Bézard. After making such American noir classics as Brute Force and The Naked City, the blacklisted director Jules Dassin went to Paris and embarked on his masterpiece: a twisting, turning tale of four ex-cons who hatch one last glorious robbery in the City of Light.
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony (Jean Servais) turns down a quick job his friend Jo (Carl Mohner) offers him, until he discovers that his old...
Henri Bérard is known for Rififi (1955), Chacun son tour (1951) and The Royalists (1947).
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