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Burglar Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea) and his two associates set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah, who has inherited a fortune -- including a renowned emerald necklace -- from a Philadelphia financier. Using Nat's female ward, Gladden (Jayne Mansfield), to pose as an admirer and case the mansion where the woman lives, they set up a perfect break-in. Things get complicated afterwards.
Even if The Burglar is not a classic film noir, its subject matter does not disappoint. In all these stories, too, cliché becomes useful, although the most common one to prevail is the "one last job before I retire" cliché ― still being used in the film Thief (1981) ― and still being used today, as it will be tomorrow.
THE BURGLAR 1957 U.S. film. Excellent quality. Widescreen format. The Burglar has two outstanding points going for it…Jayne Mansfield! The Burglar is a late period Noir film that uses some of the best elements of the genre including exquisite lighting, scene composition, and editing. Actually, Mansfield's sex kitten status is very underplayed ...
The Burglar is the feature directorial debut of Paul Wendkos, a then-documentary filmmaker who’d go onto a long career in film and TV (he directed the pilot of Hawaii Five-0, among other things). He described the film as “experimental” and “ambitious,” and reportedly shot 150,000 feet of film, despite it being an independent production without a lot of money to throw around.
Le Cambrioleur (titre original : The Burglar) est un film américain réalisé par Paul Wendkos, sorti en 1957, avec Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers, Mickey Shaughnessy et Peter Capell dans les rôles principaux. Il s'agit d'une adaptation du roman policier The Burglar de l'écrivain américain David Goodis (qui écrit également le ...
Purchase The Burglar on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Aided by two accomplices and his buxom half-sister and small-time crook, Gladden (Jayne Mansfield), burglar Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea) steals a valuable diamond necklace from the mansion of a noted spiritualist. Having already been tipped to the plan, an unscrupulous cop named Charlie tails the thieves to Atlantic City ...
20. Okt. 2016 · TV stalwart Paul Wendkos' biggest success in movies was as the director of the Gidget series.I'm Scottish so I don't know what that was. But it turns out he had a real gift for expressionistic noir, as demonstrated in his debut film The Burglar, which was scripted by pulp noir icon David Goodis, whose novels provided source material for Delmer Daves' Dark Passage, Jacques Tourneur's Nightfall ...
