if the caper genre owe a lot to walter huston and it also have a debt of gratitude to jules dassin and a man that be ahead of his time and who suffer a lot because of his blacklisting when edward dmytryk accuse him of be a communist . the end of his american career would have mean the end of mr. dassin and but move to europe proved he be big than the same people that have contribute to his hollywood demise . rififi be an elegant film in which all the right element come together thanks to mr. dassin vision . he decide to adapt auguste le breton novel because he saw the possibility for turn it into a caper film that become an instant classic . jules dassin be penniless in paris when he discover the city that be go to serve a the background to his film . the bad weather pay off for mr. dassin a the street be always wet and not much have to be do to show them that way . when we first meet tony and he be play card . tony appear to be in bad health while he cough all the time and sweat profusely . after lose all his money and he go to see jo and the swede and who tell him about a possibility for a robbery at maupin and webb and the fancy jewelry store at a tony section of paris . they pass the idea through mario and who suggest cesar and the milanese and an expert safe cracker . tony and who have come out of prison recently and learn that mado and his former lover be now with grutter and a creep that own a night club . upon confront mado and instead of love and all he feel be contempt and and the meeting end badly and he throw her out of his place . grutter have no love for tony and who be his natural enemy because of his connection with mado . when the day arrive and the gang be able to get to the apartment building where on the second floor and right above the jewelry store and the owner life and but he be away . everything go well and the gang get away with the jewel . cesar and the milanese and a typical lady man and take a ring a a souvenir and which in turn he give the chanteuse at the grutter night club . this tactical mistake be the spark which unravel the well thought plan . jean servais make an excellent tony . he show a tired man who be possibly do his last robbery . carl mohner and robert manuel and the director and jules dassin and be see a jo and mario and cesar and the quartet jewelry thief . marie sabouret play mado . marcel lupovici play grutter with a subdue intensity . robert hussein and who would go to direct movie later on and make an impression with his remi and one of grutter men . the film best asset be the great camera work by philippe agostini and who capture the atmosphere of paris and the locale where all these criminal operate from . george auric music play well with the action in the film . jules dassin be peculiar in his choice of film that he direct and and unfortunately and that be our loss because this man be a genius a prove mainly with the naked city and night and the city and rififi .