Rififi influenced Mission: Impossible

The Langley vault sequence, a silent break-in in which the thief is lowered on a wire and must not touch the floor or make a sound, is the set piece Rififi invented and Topkapi restaged in 1964. De Palma's version is the one most people have seen, and it is a descendant rather than a coincidence: the constraint, the silence and the suspended body are all the same.