Grand Slam

Often imitated but never surpassed, this classic heist thriller in the tradition of "Rififi," "The Score," and "Ocean's Eleven" features one of the best twist endings of the 1960s. A quiet yet cunning schoolteacher recruits an elite team of international criminals for the ultimate caper: robbing $10 million in diamonds from an impenetrable Rio de Janiero vault at the frenzied peak of the city's Carnival. The planning is meticulous. The crime must run like clockwork. But even if they can pull off the most daring theft in criminal history, are the wildest surprises of all yet to come? Hollywood legend Edward G. Robinson, Klaus Kinski (Nosferatu), Janet Leigh (Psycho), and Adolfo Celi (Thunderball) head an international cast in this white-knuckle hit featuring an ultra-swinging score by the legendary Ennio Morricone.