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Early examples of films which elaborately depict a heist are the three screen versions of the play Alias Jimmy Valentine, the first two made in the silent era (1915 and 1920).
hroughout the 1930's, thievery and scams were present in such films as Raffles, Outside the Law and Ninotchka.
The classical Film noir period of the 1940s and 1950s brought the genre to fame, by focusing more explicitely on the heists themselves, with such films as John Huston's Asphalt Jungle of 1950, Jules Dassin's Rififi of 1955, Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le flambeur of 1956, or Stanley Kubrick's The Killing, also of 1956.
Even to contemporary Hollywood, the genre still remains promising, as the 2001 and 2003 remakes of Ocean's Eleven and The Italian Job show.
Examples of the variety of directions the heist film can take would include the comedy heist film such as Topkapi, the western heist film such as The War Wagon, the war/heist film such as Kelly's Heroes and numerous spy movies and television programs which had heist-like plots, most notably Mission: Impossible and It Takes a Thief.
