By Nicholas Stix
I see that Red Eddie Muller is up to his usual racist hypocrisy. He has no problem with White gangsters being depicted as sadistic monsters, but depict non-white gangsters the same way, and you're "racist." (Granted, he says that director Jules Dassin was disgusted with the "racism" of the novel, but anyone familiar with Red Eddie knows that he feels the same way.)
Rififi cannot have been the greatest Sterling Hayden movie, because:
1. It didn't star Hayden--after all, Red Eddie's program is called Sterling Hayden Alley, n'est-ce pas?; and
2. It heavily rips off, from the previous year, Don't Touch the Loot, which Red Eddie just broadcast about a month ago. In each picture, a gang pulls off a brilliant robbery/burglary that nets it millions, and which should set the crooks up for life, only for a ruthless, no-class, rival gang that had nothing to do with the heist, to kidnap someone near and dear to the criminal mastermind's heart, in order to force the gang that pulled off the heist, to surrender all of the loot.
Noir Alley - Rififi (1954) intro 20250727
Noir Alley - Rififi (1954) intro 20250727
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RELEASE THE FILES !!!!!
The rebooted"Naked Gun" movie,with Liam Neeson,Pamela Anderson etal, opened at select theaters yesterday. I take reviews from nobodies with a grain of salt(and that's all you see on the 'net anymore--Louie's review,Dustin's review--who ARE these people?)
Hollywood Reporter made a list of blurbs that were unanimously "eleven thumbs up"--including Don Cornelius. HR probably is not going to pan it,but who knows?
I might drag myself out to the theater for old time's sake in a while and give you all a review. Anyone who sees it first,by all means,give your opinion on here. Seems promising.
--GRA
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