A professor (Edward G. Robinson) has been teaching American history in Rio for 30 years. He retires and returns to the States, where he goes to see an old friend in crime. He wants to rob the diamond repository across the street from his school in Rio. For that, he'll need to send four criminal experts to do the dirty work. It's a complicated plan, but things get much more complicated when they discover that the safe is now protected by a new multi-microphone system called Grand Slam 70, which sets off an alarm if it detects any noise above 14 decibels. Plus, there's the matter of getting a special key from the repository's special secretary (the special Janet Leigh), and that's going nowhere fast. Looks like the deal is off...
No, of course it's not. ;) This was fun movie, a grand caper featuring the beautiful backdrop of Rio during Carnival (with some scenes taking place in Rome, London and New York as well), with some good Mission: Impossible-style ingenuity and obstacles, and even some infighting, providing decent tension. I liked it a lot, from beginning to end. Only a couple of downsides, in that Robinson was barely in it (and I'm not big on the apparently always miserable Klaus Kinski, though I admit he is good at what he does), plus the setup, essentially the first 1/4 of the movie, felt a little longer than necessary. The whole movie could've easily worked in 90 minutes or less. Other than that, though, it's a really good'un!
P.S. That categorized master criminal list was pretty impressive. Wonder how many crimelords really had something like that, let alone that many connections.
No, of course it's not. ;) This was fun movie, a grand caper featuring the beautiful backdrop of Rio during Carnival (with some scenes taking place in Rome, London and New York as well), with some good Mission: Impossible-style ingenuity and obstacles, and even some infighting, providing decent tension. I liked it a lot, from beginning to end. Only a couple of downsides, in that Robinson was barely in it (and I'm not big on the apparently always miserable Klaus Kinski, though I admit he is good at what he does), plus the setup, essentially the first 1/4 of the movie, felt a little longer than necessary. The whole movie could've easily worked in 90 minutes or less. Other than that, though, it's a really good'un!
P.S. That categorized master criminal list was pretty impressive. Wonder how many crimelords really had something like that, let alone that many connections.