The French Asphalt Jungle, complete with equal or greater amounts of sob-sister sentimentality and dilettantish toughness and cynicism. Equal or greater amounts, too, of tension and telling detail: as in its American forerunner, the heist itself is the film's overtowering centerpiece. Among many valuable how-to tips: the closed umbrella poked through a hole in the ceiling and then opened up to catch the falling plaster as the hole is enlarged. With Jean Servais, Carl Mohner, Marie Sabouret, Robert Manuel, and "Perlo Vita" (Jules Dassin); directed by Jules Dassin. Black and white, subtitled. (1955) — Duncan Shepherd
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