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The Squeeze is a film of genre Action directed by Antonio Margheriti with Lee Van Cleef
The Squeeze (1978)
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Add to a movie listThe Rip-Off (Italian: Controrapina, also known as The Squeeze, Diamond Thieves, The Heist and The Big Rip-Off) is a 1980 Italian-West German film directed by Antonio Margheriti. It was Margheriti's third collaboration with actor Lee Van Cleef, after previously directing him in The Stranger and the Gunfighter and Take a Hard Ride.
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Retired safe-cracker Chris Gretchko is coaxed out of comfortable retirement by Jeff Olafson, the impulsive son of a former accomplice, who begs him to help steal an undocumented shipment of diamonds to satiate Van Stratten, a New York City crime boss whose mistress, Jessica, has been seeing Jeff on the side. Chris subsequently recruits his old friend, pawn shop owner Sam, who agrees to fence the diamonds afterward. When they learn Van Stratten intends to cut them out of the deal, Chris and Jeff plot a countermeasure, resulting in Jeff getting thrown in jail to give him plausible deniability, and Chris convalescing in a safe house after getting shot during the heist. Clarisse, an eccentric neighbor in the building, discovers Chris, and agrees to help tend his injuries and lie to police who come looking for him. However, Captain Donati begins to piece together the events, and all the involved parties find their lives in danger.Actors
Lee Van Cleef
(Chris Gretchko / Ray Sloan)
Karen Black
(Clarisse Saunders)
Robert Alda
(Captain Donati)
Edward Albert
(Jeff Olafsen)
Lionel Stander
(Sam)
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