Direction: Jules Dassin

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Jean Servais · Carl Möhner · Robert Manuel · Jules Dassin

Plot Tony le Stéphanois (Jean Servais) is a grim, hardboiled crook fresh from a stretch in stir for the noble gesture of taking a rap for his younger buddy Jo le...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Richard Widmark · Gene Tierney · Googie Withers · Hugh Marlowe

Plot Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day, when he encounters the most famous Greco-Roman wrestler in the world, Gregorius, at...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Barry Fitzgerald · Howard Duff · Dorothy Hart · Don Taylor

Plot In New York, the model Jean Dexter is found dead in the bathtub of her apartment apparently after committing suicide. However, the coroner realizes that she was actually murdered with...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Burt Lancaster · Hume Cronyn · Charles Bickford · Yvonne De Carlo

Plot At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Richard Conte · Valentina Cortese · Lee J. Cobb · Barbara Lawrence

Plot A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Melina Mercouri · Jules Dassin · Giorgos Foundas · Titos Vandis

Plot Illia is Piraeus's most popular person: an energetic prostitute, full of life and good humor. Every day, she swims at the pier, entertaining the dock hands. Sundays she has an...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Jean Servais · Carl Möhner · Grégoire Aslan · Gert Fröbe

Plot Greece, in the 1920's, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Conrad Veidt · Anne Ayars · Frank Reicher · Dorothy Tree

Plot A story of German-born identical twins (both played by Veidt), one a loyal American and the other, a Nazi official. The American is forced to help a group of German...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Melina Mercouri · Anthony Perkins · Raf Vallone · Elizabeth Ercy

Plot A retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. In modern Greece, Alexis's father, an extremely wealthy shipping magnate, marries the younger, fiery Phaedra. When Alexis meets his stepmother, sparks fly...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Melina Mercouri · Peter Ustinov · Maximilian Schell · Robert Morley

Plot A small-time con-man with passport problems gets mixed up with a gang of world-class jewelry thieves plotting to rob the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Turkish intelligence, suspecting arms smuggling, gets...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Pierre Brasseur · Marcello Mastroianni · Raf Mattioli

Plot Marietta, servant of aristocrat Don Cesare, is the bellezza of an Italian town where men gather nightly in the tavern for the 'game of the Law,' selecting one by lot...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Raymond St. Jacques · Ruby Dee · Frank Silvera · Roscoe Lee Browne

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Charles Laughton · Robert Young · Margaret O'Brien · William Gargan

Plot In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. His ashamed father seals him in the room where he is hiding...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Joseph Schildkraut · Roman Bohnen · Oscar O’Shea · Will Wright

Plot In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Melina Mercouri · Ellen Burstyn · Andreas Filippides · Faidon Georgitsis

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Melina Mercouri · Romy Schneider · Peter Finch · Julián Mateos

Plot Melodrama (based on the novel 10:30 on a Summer Night by Dassin's co-screenwriter Marguerite Duras) in which the still-beautiful yet insecurely middle-aged Maria (Mercouri) travels to Spain with her husband...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Joan Crawford · John Wayne · Philip Dorn · Reginald Owen

Plot Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director Jules Dassin -- who was promptly demoted back to the MGM "B" department...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Lucille Ball · John Hodiak · Lloyd Nolan · Hugo Haas

Plot Ace Connors (John Hodiak) is a con man and he's got half a million dollars in bonds hidden in a cookbook. When he tries to sell a bogus oil investment...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Richard Burton · Tatum O'Neal · Robin Gammell · Patricia Collins

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Melina Mercouri · Assi Dayan · Didier Haudepin · François Raffoul