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Dassin explained in an interview that he " had a cast a very good actor in Italy, whose name escapes me, but he never got the contract !... So I had to put on the mustache and do the part myself ".
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Dassin and interview
In an interview appearing on The Criterion Collection DVD release, Dassin recalls that the casting of Tierney was in response to a request by Darryl Zanuck, who was concerned that personal problems had rendered the actress " suicidal ," and hoped that work would improve her state of mind.
Dassin and had
Along with neorealism, the style had a homegrown precedent, specifically cited by Dassin, in director Henry Hathaway's The House on 92nd Street ( 1945 ), which demonstrated the parallel influence of the cinematic newsreel.
Before he was forced abroad for political reasons, director Jules Dassin made two classic noirs that also straddled the major / independent line: Brute Force ( 1947 ) and the influential documentary-style The Naked City were developed by producer Mark Hellinger, who had an " inside / outside " contract with Universal similar to Wanger's.
He also had cowritten for popular French-American singer Joe Dassin, contributing some of his most famous songs, including " L ' été indien " (" Africa "), " Et si tu n ' existais pas " and " Le Jardin du Luxembourg " ( written with Vito Pallavicini ).
Dassin said Darryl F. Zanuck in 1948 called him into his office to inform him he would be blacklisted, but he still had enough time to make a movie for Fox.
In 1952, after Dassin had been out of work for two years, actress Bette Davis hired him to direct her in the Broadway revue Two's Company.
Dassin received an offer from an agent in Paris, France where he met producer Henri Bérard who had acquired the rights to Auguste le Breton's popular crime novel Du Rififi chez les hommes.
To carry the lead role, Dassin selected Jean Servais, an actor whose career had slumped due to alcoholism.
" Dassin said he thought the author had created the word himself to refer to Moroccan Berbers.
Dassin and cast
During breaks in filming, Dassin would travel into town to watch experimental theatre ; he later recalled that Zbyszko was the only other person who would tag along ( the rest of the cast and crew balked at the invitation ).
Carine and Mario, along with series 2 contestants Anne-Laure and Houcine and series 5 contestants Pierre and Alexia make up the cast of a new comedie-musicale in France " Salut Joe " which features the songs of legendary star Joe Dassin.
For Italian gangster Mario Ferrati, Dassin cast Robert Manuel after seeing him perform a comic role as a member of Comédie-Française.
After a suggestion made by the wife of the film's producer, Dassin cast Carl Möhner as Jo the Swede.
Dorothy McGuire was originally cast as the picture's star, with Jules Dassin set to direct.
Dassin and very
In France, he has been compared with Georges Brassens ; in Russia, however, he was more frequently compared with Joe Dassin, partly because they were the same age and died in the same year, although their ideologies, biographies, and musical styles are very different.
The song became very popular and even reached # 1 in France when the French singer, Joe Dassin, covered it under the title, " Les Champs Élysées ".
Out of friendship for Dassin, Trauner did the film for very little money.
Dassin and actor
* Joe Dassin ( 1938 – 1980 ), singer / songwriter / actor
Moving to France, Dassin worked as a technician for his father and appeared as an actor in supporting roles in a number of movies directed by his father, including Topkapi where he played the role of " Josef ".
Knowing that a key role in the film was a grizzled Greco-Roman wrestling legend, director Jules Dassin saids he " didn't want to pick an actor and train him to be a wrestler -- I wanted to do the opposite.
Dassin and whose
Dassin married Maryse ( whose real first name is Yvette ) Massiéra in Paris on January 18, 1966.
Dassin and name
Dassin downplayed the rival gangsters ' characters in his screenplay and made their ethnicity vague, with the name Grutter sounding possibly German, Polish, or Centro-European.
The scene where Tony regretfully chooses to kill César for his betrayal of the thieves ' code of silence was filmed as an allusion to how Dassin and others felt after finding their contemporaries willing to name names in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Dassin and never
Director Dassin later confessed that he never read the novel the movie is based upon.
In 2001, Dassin admitted that he somewhat regretted the Rififi theme song, utilized only to explain the film's title which is never mentioned by any other film characters.
Dassin and !...
* American ( U. S. A .)— Joe Dassin ( worked mainly in France ): " Pauvre Pierrot " (" Poor Pierrot "), from Elle était oh !...
Dassin and I
The Rehearsal ( Gr. I Dokimi ) is a 1974 film produced by Jules Dassin that is a cinemagraphic indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967 – 1974.
Dassin said, " I was told he was dead, but it turned out he was alive and was a chicken farmer in New Jersey.
Upon its original release, film critic and future director François Truffaut praised the film, stating that " Out of the worst crime novels I ever read, Jules Dassin has made the best crime film I've ever seen " and " Everything in Le Rififi is intelligent: screenplay, dialogue, sets, music, choice of actors.
The album, which can be classified as dance music, includes covers of " L ' ete Indien " by Joe Dassin, " Bo Z Dziewczynami " by Jerzy Połomski and " Here I Go Again " by Whitesnake.
Dassin and on
* Phaedra ( 1962 ), based on Euripides ' play, directed by Jules Dassin with Melina Mercouri and Anthony Perkins
She became well-known to international audiences when she starred in Never on Sunday ( 1960 ), in which Dassin was the director and co-star.
On January 14, 1978, Dassin married Christine Delvaux Pavlopoulou and they moved to Athens, Greece on March 15, 1978.
Dassin died of a heart attack during a vacation to Tahiti on August 20, 1980.
* Joe Dassin authored a song called " Les Daltons ", loosely based on the brothers ' portrayal in the Lucky Luke comic book.
In 1974 two left-over tracks from the recording sessions for Earth were issued as a single, on the WWA label: Who, written by Fitoussi and Dassin on the A-side and featuring vocals by the former, and the instrumental Sad Face, by Vangelis himself, on the B-side.
Melina Mercouri became also well-known to international audiences when she starred in the 1960 film Never on Sunday, directed by Jules Dassin.
* 1960 Never on Sunday, Jules Dassin
Dassin was against this idea as he didn't want to be accused of taking oblique revenge on screen.
Dassin argued with his producer Henri Bérard on two points: Dassin refused to shoot the film when there was sunlight claiming that he " just wanted grey "; and that there were to be no fist fights in the film.
The film was offered distribution in the United States on the condition that Dassin renounce his past, declaring that he was duped into subversive associations.
Rififi was re-released for a limited run within America on July 21, 2000 in a new 35 mm print containing new, more explicit subtitles that were enhanced in collaboration with Dassin.
Phaedra was a 1962 motion picture directed by Jules Dassin as a vehicle for his wife Melina Mercouri, after her world-wide hit Never on Sunday.
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