Another in a series of caper films that feature fairly sympathetic men who aren't really crooks, but are guys who just haven't gotten a fair shake in life and are finally fed up enough to grab what they want. All the standard character motivations are here (one guy's a soccer player whose
career was destroyed by an injury, another is a struggling artist, another a student, and the last one is just plain unemployed, with a wife and kids to feed), so when the wronged bunch rips-off the box office of the local soccer stadium, we cheer. After the heist, the men split up and are picked
off by the cops in a variety of melodramatic ways. Not bad, just not fresh. (In Itali...
Released:
1951
Rated:
NR
Length:
77 mins