The director of 'Rififi' and 'Never on Sunday' is considered one of the leading American filmmakers of the postwar era. He moved to France after being blacklisted in the early 1950s.
Jules Dassin, the blacklisted American filmmaker who was a master of film noir, directing such classics as "Brute Force," "The Naked City" and "Rififi," died Monday in an Athens hospital. He was 96. ...