Train Robbery Confidential (1962) (O Assalto ao Trem Pagador)

Melhores Filmes Nacionais (Brasil) (19 movies items)

"Envolvente e poderoso, uma complexa análise sociológica existente sobre conflito de classes. Um dos maiores clássicos do cinema. Engaging and powerful, a complex existing sociological analysis of class conflict. One of cinema's greatest classics. "

Watched in 2018 (262 movies items)

"21.4. Brasilialaisessa ryöstöfilmissä on mallikkaasti tehty ryöstökohtaus ja paljon purevaa yhteiskunnallista sanomaa faveloiden arjesta, varallisuuden jakautumisesta sekä siitä, kenellä on ihmisten oletusten mukaan edes oikeus omistaa asioita."

Film Journal 2018 (179 movies items)

"There's a scene in Assault on the Pay Train where a group of reporters flood a room to take pictures of a deceased robber to put on the front pages of their newspapers. When you think of this film in a modern context, it's incredible. No newspaper in Brazil would ever print the dead body of a poverty-struck robber in today's climate. They've grown tired of the bodies. No one wants to see it. But a mere 50 years ago it was sensational. At it's heart this is a French thriller in the vein of Melvil"