For me it's the best Italian heist movie ever, in a period - the sixties - where such pre OCEAN'S ELEVEN like films were galore; and mostly light hearted, more or less comedy oriented. I guess RIFIFI opened the way, but it was not a comedy of course. This one is not an authentic noir, dark or gloomy story, not a crime drama as was MELODIE EN SOUS SOL or GRAND SLAM. You could compare it with ITALIAN JOB, but the Peter Collinson's film is an action oriented heist, not a burglary as this one. A major huge, gigantic burglary. You can think of TOPKAPI, BIGGEST BUNDLE OF THEM ALL, OCEAN'S ELEVEN - but the 1961 version, not the crap remake which also threw back this kind of films at the dawn of the XXIth Century, with awful results most of the time. I can't get tired to watch this film, endless times. Great, unconvincing, delusional, incredible, fantastic, a real must see for heist films die hard fans. And the sixties provided such a magic atmosphere....
Review of 7 uomini d'oro
