Grand Slam (1967 film)
- Janet Leigh: Mary Ann Davis
- Edward G. Robinson: Professor James Anders
- Adolfo Celi: Mark Milford
- Robert Hoffmann: Jean -Paul Audry
- Riccardo Cucciolla: Agostino Rossi
- Georges Rigaud: Gregg
- Jussara: Stetuaka
- Miguel del Castillo: Manager
Top Job ( Original title: Ad ogni costo, German Television Title Top Job - diamond heist in Rio in the English version under the title Grand Slam published) is an Italian heist movie directed by Giuliano Montaldo from the year 1966.
Content
The good-natured Professor James Anders, an American, spent 30 years working as an English teacher in Rio de Janeiro. After his retirement, he plans a spectacular diamond heist of a bank building, exactly opposite to his school in Rio and he could spy in all the years in peace. Anders asks his childhood friend Mark Milford, in New York a leader in the organized crime has become to recommend him four men who are to the coup, which must take place during the Carnival in Rio perform. Each of the four is an expert in his field: a safecracker, an electronics expert, a military officer with killer ambitions and a playboy, which is to get down to a bank employees to go unnoticed relieve her a key to the vault. In Rio, the unequal men meet: The imperious and hateful German ex-military white, the uptight and timid electronics expert Rossi, the sovereign and cool British safecracker Gregg and the vain and arrogant playboy Audry. Men's relationship with each other is strained, but the preparations are in the style of a classic heist movie. Playboy Audry has difficulty in finding access to the careworn Mary Ann, which he, however, succeed later first. However, the men need to realize during the preparations that the bank has installed a new alarm system that reacts to sounds. Among many difficulties of burglary succeeds as planned, but after that there is a surprise.
Reviews
" A cleverly staged and exciting thriller, cleverly constructed and played brilliantly. "
- Mymovies.it holds the film for " unoriginal and quite commercial, but thanks to a good script and directing actors at a good level .", and coming soon recognized an "ordinary director of the progressive Montaldo which are not yet overloaded intellectual" is.