The Burglars

1972 "Catch the burglars!"
6.6| 2h0m| PG| en
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In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to set off.

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece
Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?
AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
JasparLamarCrabb Henri Verneuil's fast paced thriller stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a burglar whose seemingly perfect emerald heist is tripped up by crooked cop Omar Sharif. Belmondo and crew are taunted, shot at, and endlessly pursued by the maniacal Sharif. Set in Greece, Verneuil infuses the film with a lot of energy and a number of classic touches: Sharif searching an amusement on horseback; Belmondo's toy factory hide-out; a very odd climax in a grain silo. Sharif & Belmondo have a lot of chemistry in several confrontations and the whole enterprise is enhanced by the presence of Dyan Cannon (as a stripper with a heart of anything BUT gold). Nicole Calfan is very good as a lovelorn teenager smitten with Belmondo and the supporting cast includes Robert Hossein. Great cinematography by Claude Renoir & a dynamite music score by Ennio Morricone. A excellent companion piece to Verneuil's THE SICILIAN CLAN.
Umar Mansoor Bajwa The Burglars is a good entertaining movie to watch during leisure hours. The futile but reckless car chase sequence is compelling and Belmondo vs Omar Shariff is an exciting combination.Inspite of all the coercion and blackmailing by Zacharia (played by Shariff), the scoundrel played by Belmondo manages to escape at the end and the cop had to grapple in a heap of wheat flow in a silos tank. The theme music produced by Ennio Morricone has a subtle and beguiling tinge of danger and suspense.This movie is a much better entertainment than watching "Pirates of the Caribbean" or "The Mummy" or the recent "2012 end of the world" which can only be enjoyed by people sporting puerile imagination and fictional taste. A show of death and destruction, creepy images and fiction superimposed by computer animation and special effects does not correspond to good movie making.
corbo Brilliant acting, good, classic plot, fantastic score from, once again, Ennio Morricone, the best car chase ever... (Remy Julienne, of course) Belmondo is at his best, Sharif is a superb baddy, and they fight each other with skills, brains, guts and muscles. They don't make breathtaking suspense like this anymore. Well, Sharif is really... how to say? impressive? ghastly? Hum, how do you say "malsain" in english? This one is a classic. Check it out. And "l'Homme de Rio" as well.
vostf They broadcasted Le Casse as to pay homage to Henri Verneuil. Poor pick. Everything is wooden in it. Mainly it's a poor action flick with the scene of a burglary, a car chase, a man chase and some dull scenes in between. Even the main scene in Dyan Cannon's bedroom falls flat whereas it had points to be a JamesBond-like pussycat and mouse game. The car chase looks like Remi Julienne's stunts practicing for a few minutes in Athens: it's long and nothing happens.Above all every character is under written. Belmondo plays with his usual 'bebel' toolkit and Omar Sharif is Omar Sharif playing a corrupt cop. Nothing more on the thin character line. Eventually the best in Le Casse is the Greek food, but you can't even taste it! Try Moussaka instead or simply another Verneuil movie like the previous one: Le Clan des Siciliens.