Le Casse is a 1971 movie directed by French director Henri Verneuil, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif and Robert Hossein. It is based on the 1953 novel by David Goodis and revolves around a team of four burglars chased by a corrupt cop in Athens. It's a remake of the 1957 film The Burglar with Jayne Mansfield. The movie is known for its spectacular car chase and Belmondo's incredible fall from a construction truck down a steep, rocky hillside. The movie was shot twice, once in French and once in English, by the same cast. Azad , Ralf and 2 others accomplices rob a suitcase of... emeralds from a rich Greek citizen, M.Tasco. When Abel Zacharia , the Athenian police chief, surprises Azad's car in front of Tasco's house the night of the robbing, he decides to let Azad and his team go, hoping he could retrieve the diamonds for him. Follows a chase between Azad and the corrupt cop through Athens' streets which culminate to the final scene which will be later borrowed by Witness in 1982.
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| Release date: | 1971 |
| Directed by: | Henri Verneuil |
| Runtime: | 120 Minutes |
| Music by: | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography: | Claude Renoir |
| Screenplay by: | David Goodis |