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Jules Dassin

Highest Rated: 100% Thieves' Highway (1949)

Lowest Rated: 20% Phaedra (1962)

Birthday: Dec 18, 1911

Birthplace: Middletown, Connecticut, USA

Gained experience in theater and radio in New York before going to work in Hollywood in 1940, first with RKO (as assistant director) and then with MGM. Dassin hit his stride in the late 1940s with such dynamic (and still well-regarded) film noir melodramas as "Brute Force" (1947) and "The Naked City" (1948). After being blacklisted he moved to Europe, where he scored his greatest international successes with the French-produced "Rififi" (1955) and the then-scandalous "Never on Sunday" (1959), starring his second wife Melina Mercouri. For the most part, his later films--like "Up Tight" (1968), an ill-conceived black remake of John Ford's 1935 classic "The Informer"--have been disappointing and inconclusive.

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100% 79% Thieves' Highway
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95% 68% Topkapi
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95% 87% Brute Force
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92% 95% Rififi
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89% 75% Law
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86% 90% Night and the City
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86% 79% The Naked City
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86% 73% The Canterville Ghost
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80% 80% Uptight
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80% 79% He Who Must Die
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Jules Dassin NIGHT AND THE CITY, director Jules Dassin, Richard Widmark, 1950. TM and Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. NEVER ON SUNDAY, Jules Dassin, 1960 BRUTE FORCE, Burt Lancaster with director Jules Dassin on the set, 1947 BRUTE FORCE, Jules Dassin, Sam Levine (seated) and Hume Cronyn (right) rehearsing the scene, 1947 NEVER ON SUNDAY, (aka POTE TIN KYRIAKI), Jules Dassin, 1960 THE NAKED CITY, Jules Dassin, directing on New York's Lower East Side, 1948 THE NAKED CITY, producer, Mark Hellinger, director, Jules Dassin, on location, New York City, 1948 UP TIGHT!, producer-director Jules Dassin on set, 1968 NEVER ON SUNDAY, Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, 1960 View more photos

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Circle of Two 40% 1980 Director A Dream of Passion 80% 1978 Director, Producer, Writer The Rehearsal 1974 Actor, Director, Screenwriter Promise at Dawn 1971 Director, Producer Uptight 80% 80% 1968 Director, Producer 10:30 P.M. Summer 31% 1966 Director, Producer, Writer Topkapi 95% 68% 1964 Director, Producer Phaedra 20% 39% 1962 Director, Producer Never on Sunday 67% 82% 1960 Homer Thrace Actor, Director Where the Hot Wind Blows 60% 60% 1959 Director Law 89% 75% 1958 Director He Who Must Die 80% 79% 1957 Director, Writer Rififi 92% 95% 1955 Cesar le Milanais Actor, Director, Writer Night and the City 86% 90% 1950 Director Thieves' Highway 100% 79% 1949 Director The Naked City 86% 79% 1948 Director Brute Force 95% 87% 1947 Director Two Smart People 1946 Director A Letter for Evie 75% 1945 Director The Canterville Ghost 86% 73% 1944 Director Young Ideas 1943 Director The Affairs of Martha 1943 Director Reunion in France 49% 1942 Director Nazi Agent 33% 1942 Director The Tell-Tale Heart 1941 Director
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