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Review of Grand Slam [DVD] [1968] [US Import] [NTSC]

A retired school teacher, the Professor (Edward G. Robinson), has a plan to rob 10 million in precious gems from a Rio De Janeiro diamond exchange. He recruits four retired criminals, that are experts in the fields of safe cracking, electronics/gadgets, seduction and killing. Even though the Professor has planned everything down to the last detail nothing goes quite as planned...

A caper flick in the same vein as Topkapi, Seven Golden Men, and The Italian Job(1969); more of a suspense movie than a comedy thriller, like the others, though. Robinson's role is important, but is basically an extended cameo (seven years later, he would die not too long after his last performance in Soylent Green). Rounding out the recognizable cast (the rest are European actors) are Janet Leigh (Psycho), who's a central part of the operation, Klaus Kinski (Fitzcarraldo) playing another vicious killer (he did that alot in the sixties and seventies) and Aldolfo Celi (Thunderball) in another small, but important part.

I only had one real problem with the film; they had an half hour to do the job and it just didn't seem like all the stuff they did would fit in that time period. Otherwise it's a fine film, with lots of nice shot of Rio and Carnival in the Sixties.

6/10
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Added by coyoteblue
14 years ago on 5 August 2009 03:52