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Les quatre malfrats

Original title: The Hot Rock
  • 1972
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 41m
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6.8/10
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Robert Redford and George Segal in Les quatre malfrats (1972)
Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
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Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...

  • Director
    • Peter Yates
  • Writers
    • Donald E. Westlake
    • William Goldman
  • Stars
    • Robert Redford
    • George Segal
    • Ron Leibman
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    7.3K
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    • Director
      • Peter Yates
    • Writers
      • Donald E. Westlake
      • William Goldman
    • Stars
      • Robert Redford
      • George Segal
      • Ron Leibman
    • 94User reviews
    • 43Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 2 nominations total

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    Robert Redford
    Robert Redford
    • Dortmunder
    George Segal
    George Segal
    • Kelp
    Ron Leibman
    Ron Leibman
    • Murch
    Paul Sand
    Paul Sand
    • Greenberg
    Moses Gunn
    Moses Gunn
    • Dr. Amusa
    William Redfield
    William Redfield
    • Lt. Hoover
    Topo Swope
    Topo Swope
    • Sis
    Charlotte Rae
    Charlotte Rae
    • Ma Murch
    Graham Jarvis
    Graham Jarvis
    • Warden
    • (as Graham P. Jarvis)
    Harry Bellaver
    Harry Bellaver
    • Rollo the Bartender
    Seth Allen
    Seth Allen
    • Happy Hippie
    Robert Levine
    Robert Levine
    • Cop At Police Station
    Lee Wallace
    Lee Wallace
    • Dr. Strauss
    Robert Weil
    Robert Weil
    • Albert
    Lynne Gordon
    • Miasmo
    Grania O'Malley
    • Bird Lady
    Fred Cook
    Fred Cook
    • Otto
    Mark Dawson
    • Big Museum Guard
    • Director
      • Peter Yates
    • Writers
      • Donald E. Westlake
      • William Goldman
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    User reviews94

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    7bkoganbing

    The Tale Of The Traveling Rock

    The Hot Rock has a soft spot in my heart because the area of Brooklyn where a lot of the film was shot, I know very well, Eastern Parkway, The Botanical Gardens and most of all The Brooklyn Museum I know very well from years of living in the Borough of homes and churches. The Brooklyn Museum is where the elusive Hot Rock resides or at least where it first resides.

    Robert Redford is released from prison and his brother-in-law George Segal is there to greet him. As Redford says to warden Graham Jarvis there ain't no chance in hell he's going straight. Straight into another caper that Segal has lined up for him with Ron Leibman and Paul Sand.

    The amiable team is hired by African ambassador Moses Gunn from some fictional central African country to get a national treasure, a rather large diamond on display at the Brooklyn Museum. They do steal the diamond, but through an incredible combination of circumstances have to plan and execute four different break-ins before The Hot Rock is in their hands.

    Redford and Segal display a good chemistry, as good as the fabled co-starring chemistry of Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Why they were not heralded as a buddy combination is beyond me.

    Stealing the film in whatever scenes they are in are shyster attorney Zero Mostel and his doofus of a son, Paul Sand. In the first caper at the museum, Sand gets caught and what he does with the diamond sets up the entire rest of the film.

    As for Zero we find he's an attorney with absolutely no scruples whatsoever, the kind they make excellent lawyer jokes about. But he does give us some excellent laughs.

    The Hot Rock is something on the order of an American domestic version of Topkapi. The laughs in it are good and strong, although some of the Seventies fashions make me wince. Despite that the film holds up well today. I'm surprised no one is thinking of remaking this one.
    8royiscool86

    The Best Dortmunder Adaptation

    This was my introduction to my favorite author and his prized creation (under his name anyway) Donald Westalke's John Dortmunder and crew make for a great book, so far thirteen and counting. This movie is based on the first book and one of the best.

    I won't get into the plot because it's been gone over before, but Peter Yates and William Goldman crafted a pretty fine entertaining film, it may not be as good as the book (in fact it's not) but it doesn't stray too far, you got Robert Redford who's good in about everything. When i was reading the books at first i pictured him as Dortmunder, but my mental image soon switched to Walter Matthau. Then George Segal is a pitch perfect Andy Kelp, i don't think anyone could have been better. As a gearhead, my favorite character of the series is the driver Stan Murch, and Ron Leibman embodies him perfectly.

    Overall the film is much better then other adaptations like "Bank Shot" with George C. Scott, and "What's the Worst that Could Happen?" with Martin Lawrence, and only slightly better than "Why Me?" with Christopher Lambert, and if you haven't read any Donald Westlake, you should. You really should, start with any of the Dortmunder books, and you'll get hooked.
    Soya

    A nice comedy in a sad era for fashion

    Robert Redford plays an ex-convict named "Dortmunder" who, with the help of Kelp (George Segal), Merch (Ron Leibman) and Greenberg (Peter Sands), undertake a goofy and delightful heist of a valuable diamond. This diamond, named the Sahara Stone, was stolen by both the United States and Africa for many generations, and Dr. Amusa (Moses Gunn) hires this unwieldy bunch to steal it back from the U.S. They steal it from a museum (using a huge car explosion), then from the prison, then from a police station before finally getting fired. However, all is not lost, for then Dortmunder actually gets the thing (with the help of a hypnotist and a gullible guard) from a maximum security bank. This is a great movie for those who like eating pizza in front of the TV!
    7SnoopyStyle

    Heist with humor

    Dortmunder (Robert Redford) just left prison and vows to not do another job. He's wrangled immediately by his sister's man Kelp (George Segal) to do a job. Dr. Amusa (Moses Gunn) is paying for the heist who claims the gem was stolen from the African people.

    The heist isn't sophisticated. There is a lot of Keystone Cops elements in this movie. It's cute bordering on funny. Dortmunder's frustration with Kelp's constant prodding is kind of funny. George Segal, Robert Redford, Paul Sand, and Ron Leibman make for the perfect antidote to the Ocean's movies. These guys make up for the lack of cool with an abundance of bumbling determination. Zero Mostel makes an appearance as Paul Sand's lawyer father. He has a bit fun. The movie is a bit of fun action from the early 70s.
    7peter-patti

    70s' Zeitgeist

    Okay okay, Westlake's novels are always much better than the respective movies (take for example "What's the Worst that Could Happen"), but I must admit that director Peter Yates did a really good job. Dortmunder (the author was inspired to this name by the German beer!) is not much like Donald Westlake's original in the Dortmunder books, along with some of the other characters. Redford is too handsome. George C. Scott in "Bank Shot" was much more Dortmunderish (Westlake's master-crook John Archibald Dortmunder is worn down and pessimistic), but in the "Hot Rock" movie Yates catches the 'Zeitgeist', or spirit of the times. And that's enough.

    Brilliant: Quincy Jones' soundtrack (with Gerry Mulligan playing the sax).

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    • Trivia
      Writer Donald E. Westlake stated in an interview that "The Hot Rock" started out to be one of his darker Parker novels but that "it kept turning funny."
    • Goofs
      When the locksmith is attempting to unlock the case in the museum, he's using only a pick. Without a tension wrench, there's no way to turn the lock cylinder, so he would never succeed in picking the lock.
    • Quotes

      Dortmunder: Afghanistan Banana Stand.

    • Crazy credits
      The 20th Century Fox logo is erased away via a "snake effect".
    • Alternate versions
      The original network television version included two extra scenes. The first one is where the hypnotist, that is hired, explaining to Redford's gang how hypnosis works and how he can hypnotize the bank worker. He tells them the trigger phrase will be "Afghanistan banana stand", which Redford later says to the bank worker to obey his commands. The second one occurs at the end of the movie where Abe Greenberg and Dr. Amusa go to the bank to retrieve the diamond, but are disappointed to discover Dortmunder already took it from the safe deposit box.
    • Connections
      Edited into The Clock (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      When You Believe
      Written by Bill Rinehart

      Sung by Táta

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    • Release date
      • April 14, 1972 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Hot Rock
    • Filming locations
      • Nassau County Jail, East Meadow, Long Island, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Landers-Roberts Productions
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    • Budget
      • $4,895,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 41 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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