Name: Armas contra la ley
Genre: Crime
Released: 1961-12-11
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Renato Baldini, María Luisa Merlo, Ricardo Valle

Intriguing and interesting thriller about a criminal robbery at a Madrid jewelry

A nice thriller with suspense , intrigue , twists and turns . A notorious Italisn delinquent called Marini : Renato Baldini is hired by a powerful Mafioso to carry out a robbing at Madrid . Marini arrives in Madrid and contacts three delinquents : a smuggler , a small-time thief : Manuel Zarzo , and a failed University student : Ricardo Valle who has a nurse girlfriend : Maria Luisa Merlo. All of them pull off a jewelry robbery to take some precious jewells justly transported from París to Madrid .

This is a Spanish/Italian co-production financed by Hispamer/Sergio Newman . It deals with a well-planned jewelry robbering, though eventually things go wrong . It has usual thriller elements , including Noir Film characteristics, such as : moving intrigue , femme fatale , police persecution and suspenseful . The motion picture was competently directed by Ricardo Blasco . This Spanish filmmaker was a director assistant and director , being especially known for Gringo 1963 , Suspiros de Triana 1955 , The three Swords of Zorro and its sequel Oath of Zorro 1965 , as well as TV series as Diego De Acevedo. Rating : 6.5/10 . Worthwhile seeing for Spanish cinema fans .

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