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Don’t Touch the Loot<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>aka Grisbi <\/strong><\/em>(1954)<\/p>\n Director:\u00a0 Jacques Becker<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay: Jacques Becker, Albert Simonin, Maurice Griffe;<\/strong> based Touchez pas au grisbi by Albert Simonin Stars: Jean Gabin, Ren\u00e9 Dary<\/strong>, Dora Doll<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline: From the demi-mondes of Paris…with its pimps, its pushers, its passions, from the world of “RIFIFI” and “RAZZIA”…an electrifying adventure in suspense!<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Max has beaten the odds.\u00a0 He’s a criminal who reached middle age without going to prison or worse getting killed.\u00a0 What’s better is that Max and Riton, his trusted crime partner, recently pulled off a heist of gold bars worth millions.\u00a0 More than enough for both Max and Riton to give up their life of crime and retire.<\/p>\n One night shortly after the heist, Max meets Riton at a nightclub.\u00a0 Riton has brought along Josy, his latest girlfriend.\u00a0 Josy’s a dancer half Riton’s age.\u00a0 Later that evening Max spots Josy making out with a young man.<\/p>\n When Max is heading home for the night, he notices he’s being followed.\u00a0 He gets the drop on the thugs and sends them running.\u00a0 Max calls Riton to warn him.\u00a0 Max then picks up Riton and takes him to a safe house. Riton admits that he told Josy about their latest score to impress her.\u00a0 They realize that Josy has sold them out.<\/p>\n The next day Max meets with his uncle who will fence the gold.\u00a0 When Max calls to update Riton, he learns that Riton has been kidnapped.\u00a0 The thugs want the gold bars in exchange for Riton’s safe return.<\/p>\n Max is promised a simple trade and nobody will get hurt.\u00a0 Don’t count on it.<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s interesting that Jacques Becker doesn’t focus on the theft of the gold bars (in fact it happens prior to the start of the film).\u00a0 I like the pace of the film.\u00a0 Jean Gabin is perfect as Max, the world weary criminal who is so close to living the dream.\u00a0 Max reminded me a bit of Mike McClusky (Mayor of Kingstow<\/em>n) and Harry (Mobland<\/em>) in his ability\/ways to deal with situations\/people.<\/p>\n Don’t Touch the Loot <\/strong><\/em>aka Grisbi (1954) <\/strong><\/em>rates 5 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n Don’t Touch the Loot\u00a0aka Grisbi (1954) Director:\u00a0 Jacques Becker Screenplay: Jacques Becker, Albert Simonin, Maurice Griffe; based Touchez pas au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38974,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38973\/revisions\/38974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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