In French. 118 minute running time so at least 20 to 25 minutes too long. Heist story … jewel shop, coming in through the ceiling, long silent scene … tough guys and double-dealing dames (whipped with belts) … crime doesn’t pay … surprised by how violent it was, graphically violent for the time, maybe the codes were different in France … I wasn’t super thrilled with it, I know it’s a “classic” and all, but it could have been tighter and less heavy-handed with the moralizing. (Blacklisted Dassin moved to France.)