Movie · Crime · Drama

When the intelligent criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider is released from prison, he seeks a fifty thousand-dollar investment from the bookmaker Cobby to recruit a small gang of specialists for a million-dollar heist of jewels from a jewelry. Doc is introduced to the lawyer Alonzo D. Emmerich who offers to finance the whole operation and buy the gems immediately after the burglary. Doc hires the safe cracker Louis Ciavelli, the driver Gus Minissi, and the gunman Dix Handley to the heist. His plan works perfectly but bad luck and betrayals compromise the steps after the heist and the gangsters need to flee from the police.

1950 · 1h 52m
Director John Huston

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When the intelligent criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider is released from prison, he seeks a fifty thousand-dollar investment from the bookmaker Cobby to recruit a small gang of specialists for a million-dollar heist of jewels from a jewelry. Doc is introduced to the lawyer Alonzo D. Emmerich who offers to finance the whole operation and buy the gems immediately after the burglary. Doc hires the safe cracker Louis Ciavelli, the driver Gus Minissi, and the gunman Dix Handley to the heist. His plan works perfectly but bad luck and betrayals compromise the steps after the heist and the gangsters need to flee from the police.

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Average 8.5
Reviews 40
Fresh 39
Rotten 1

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Studio
Warner Bros.
Released
1950
Run Time
1 hr 52 min
Rated
T13
Region of Origin
United States
© (c) 1950 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Original Audio
English
Audio

English (United States) (AAC), French (France) (AAC)

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English (CC), Bulgarian , Cantonese, Traditional , Chinese, Simplified , Chinese, Traditional , Czech , Danish , Dutch (Netherlands) , Estonian , Finnish , French (France) , Greek , Hebrew , Hungarian , Indonesian , Latvian , Lithuanian , Malay , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese (Portugal) , Russian , Slovenian , Swedish , Thai , Turkish , Ukrainian

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Closed captions refer to subtitles in available languages with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.