Top job
Movie | |
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German title | Top job |
Original title | Ad ogni costo |
Country of production | Italy , Spain , Germany |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1967 |
length | 119 (German version almost 112) minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
Rod | |
Director | Giuliano Montaldo |
script |
Paolo Bianchini Augusto Caminito Mino Roli |
production |
Arrigo Colombo Giorgio Papi Zeljko Kunkera |
music | Ennio Morricone |
camera | Antonio Macasoli |
cut | Nino Baragli |
occupation | |
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Top Job (original title: Ad ogni costo; German TV title Top Job - Diamond Robbery in Rio, published in the English version under the title Grand Slam ) is an Italian-Spanish-German heist movie by Giuliano Montaldo from 1967. The main roles are besides Janet Leigh and Robert Hoffmann with Klaus Kinski , Edward G. Robinson and Riccardo Cucciolla .
action
The good-natured professor James Anders, an American, worked as an English teacher in Rio de Janeiro for 30 years . After his retirement he plans a spectacular diamond robbery from a bank building, which is directly opposite his school in Rio, so that he has been able to spy on it over the years. Anders asks his childhood friend Mark Milford, who has risen to head of organized crime in New York , to recommend four men to him who can carry out the coup that is to take place during Carnival . Of the four men named by Milford, each is an expert in his or her field: a safe cracker , an electronics specialist , a military man with killer ambitions and a playboy who is supposed to approach a bank employee and take a key to the vault from her .
The unequal men meet in Rio: the bossy and hateful German ex-military Weiss, the uptight and shy electronics specialist Rossi, the confident and cool British safe-cracker Gregg and the vain and arrogant playboy Audry. Their relationship with each other is tense from the start, but the preparations are still going on in the style of a classic heist movie, even if Playboy initially struggles to find a connection with the careworn Mary Ann Davis. During their preparations, however, the men discover that the bank has installed a state-of-the-art alarm system called the Grand Slam 70, which reacts to noise. Even if the difficulties do not seem to end at first, the break-in succeeds as planned. On their escape, the gangsters are then stopped by the police, where Gregg is killed. Jean-Paul is pushed down a cliff in the car by Erich Weiss together with the dead Gregg, and the car goes up in flames. Shortly afterwards, Agostino also gets caught, as does Erich, who is struck down by Milford, who wants the diamonds to himself. However, the surprise is great when he opens the suitcase and it is empty.
In Rome there is a reunion between Prof. Anders and Mary Ann Davis. As it turns out, with her help, the professor had planned everything and foresaw how it would come about. In a moment, when the police hadn't looked closely, the young woman was able to swap the suitcases and thus get the diamonds. A moment of inattention is enough for two thieves on a motorcycle to steal the suitcase for their part.
Production notes, publication
Production companies were Jolly Film Srl (Rome), Coral Producciones Cinematograficas (Madrid) and Constantin Film GmbH (Munich). Giorgio Serino (Italy) and Valentin Sallent (Spain) were responsible for production. According to the English opening credits, the entire production was supervised by the later film director Massimo Dallamano . The film, made in 1966, premiered on September 28, 1967 in Italy . In the Federal Republic of Germany it started on January 6, 1968, in Austria on January 26, 1968 under the title Masterpiece for Diamond Marten . In West Germany, the title at any price (it. Ad ogni costo) was sometimes used. Top Job was first broadcast on television on February 28, 1981 by ZDF . In Spain, the film ran from April 21, 1969 under the title Diamantes a go-gó .
On September 24, 2010 the film was released on DVD, published by Koch Media GmbH.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film certified Top Job to be “a clever and excitingly staged crime thriller”, “cleverly constructed and brilliantly played”.
mymovies.it considered the film "not very original and fairly commercial, but thanks to a good script and acting on a good level". ComingSoon.it praised the “proper direction of the progressive Montaldo, which is not yet intellectually overloaded”.
Cinema saw a “thriller in the best Rififi tradition with music by Ennio Morricone” and continued: “Romantic, exotic locations, a lot of sixties flair and international star power make this Euro co-production fun and entertaining.” Conclusion: “ Nice adventure trip to the Sugar Loaf ”.
Web links
- Top Job in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Top job at filmportal.de
- Top job movie poster
Individual evidence
- ↑ Top Job Schnittbericht.com
- ↑ Top Job - Diamond Hunt in Rio DVD
- ^ Top Job - Giuliano Montaldo deliria-italiano
- ↑ Top job. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Ad ogni costo at maymovies.it (Italian)
- ↑ Ad ogni costo review at comingsoon.it (Italian)
- ↑ Top job at cinema.de (with pictures of the film). Retrieved July 25, 2015.