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Jules Dassin
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review by A customer from London
Highly recommended. 6 February 2004
review by from London
TopKapi...a must see. 6 January 2005
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My Fair Greek Lady 8 January 2006
Jules Dassin - filmography
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Circle Of Two
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Richard Burton, Tatum O'Neal, Robin Gammell
Director: Jules Dassin
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In 1980, on one of the rare occasions that he returned from exile in Europe to work in North America, Jules Dassin made OBSESSION. He shot the movie in and around Toronto with a largely Canadian crew. As Dassin and scriptwriter Thomas Hedley develop this story of the attraction between a sixty-year-..read more »
 
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Obsession
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Richard Burton, Tatum O' Neil, Norma Dell'Agnese
Director: Jules Dassin
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This is a story about a young woman coming of age and finding a deeper love with a man who just happens to be somewhat older. Tatum O'Neal plays the part perfectly as a young teenage girl falling in love with a man, Richard Burton who showed and gave her respect, love, honesty and trust. Richard ..read more »
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from 14 members
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10:30 P.M. Summer
(1966)
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch
Director: Jules Dassin
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Passion, whether sex or violence, is the root of conflict in this film which follows as the alcoholic Mercouri and her husband Finch travel with their daughter and Schneider across Spain. Being married does not stop Finch from fooling around with other women, however, and an affair flares up ..read more »
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from 3 members
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Topkapi
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov
Director: Jules Dassin
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Five years after directing the heist classic RIFIFI, Jules Dassin returns to robbery with TOPKAPI. Again there is a long and daring break-in, as his heroes attempt to steal the priceless Emerald Dagger from the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, but in contrast to the bleak RIFIFI, the mood in ..read more »
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Phaedra
(1962)
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Raf Vallone, Anthony Perkins
Director: Jules Dassin
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Inspired by Euripedes' tragedy Hippolytus and set in modern times, this allegorical tale centers on the love triangle between a fabulously wealthy Greek shipping magnate, his lonely second wife, and his first-born son. The affair between the wife and her stepson begins soon after she arrives in ..read more »
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from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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Rififi
(1954)
Starring: Jean Servais, Carl Mohner, Robert Manuel
Director: Jules Dassin
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With the dramatic crime thriller RIFIFI, blacklisted American director Jules Dassin returned to the cinema triumphantly. In addition to directing, Dassin co-wrote the script and appeared (under the name Perlo Vita) as Cesar the Italian safecracker. Cesar is one of the gang formed by the gaunt Tony (..read more »
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from 6 members
Not currently released
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Rififi
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Jules Dassin, Magali Noel, Teddy Bilitis
Director: Jules Dassin
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With the dramatic crime thriller RIFIFI, blacklisted American director Jules Dassin returned to the cinema triumphantly. In addition to directing, Dassin co-wrote the script and appeared (under the name Perlo Vita) as Cesar the Italian safecracker. Cesar is one of the gang formed by the gaunt Tony (..read more »
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from 2,912 members
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Night And The City
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Herbert Lom
Director: Jules Dassin
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In NIGHT AND THE CITY, director Jules Dassin brilliantly fuses two styles of filmmaking, crossing the expressionist lighting and framing of film noir with the almost documentary location shooting he used for THE NAKED CITY (1948). Dassin treats NIGHT AND THE CITY’s central London locations as ..read more »
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from 965 members
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The Naked City
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
Director: Jules Dassin
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Attractive blonde model Jean Dexter is murdered in her apartment and homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran take on the case. Their investigation ties the model's death to a string of apartment burglaries.
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from 187 members
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Brute Force
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford
Director: Jules Dassin
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel, corrupt prison guard who has his own less-than-ethical ways of dealing with inmates, enough so that Joe Collins (Lancaster) -- the toughest inmate in the cell block -- has ..read more »
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Jules Dassin facts
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...ble' (street fight) is an outstanding noir, crime-thriller from French director Jules Dassin working at the peak of his considerable powers. There is much to recommend, but...
