An international production featuring a genuinely international cast (German, French, American, Italian, British), Alvin Rakoff’s An einem Freitag um halb zwölf (US: The World in My Pocket) sticks to the tried-and-true heist narrative but executes it with novelty in the details: death by rattlesnake up the sleeve, shots fired from a corpse’s gun, multiple scenes of carving out human flesh. Essentially led by an attractive woman named Ginny (Nadja Tiller) whose charm will inflame rivalries later, the gang consists of Frank Morgan (Rod Steiger), Bleck (Peter van Eyck), Gypo (Jean Servais), and Kitson (Ian Bannen), and the target is a U.S. Army payroll truck on its standard route through the French countryside. As greed and bitterness escalate after the deed is done and the loot is in their possession, their escape from the military police manhunt will be thwarted by a curious Italian kid named Gino. Taking place primarily in daylight, The World in My Pocket never quite feels like a German film or a French film or an Italian film; instead, it’s a neat little caper film that speaks in the universal language of action.