 The much imitated heist sequence is over 32 minutes long and  contains not a single line of dialogue or music. The production crew  and composer Georges Auric thought it would be a disaster to have  such a long sequence sans dialogue. Auric insisted that he allow him  to write a grand piece of music for the scene and he eventually did  on his own. Later Dassin played the part for Auric twice, once with  the score, once without. Auric turned to him and admitted, "Without  the music".