Armored Car Robbery

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Nov 1, 2020 Super crime film with excellent performances by the entire cast. Special props to Adele Jergens who played the femme fatale role and William Talman portraying the sinister homicidal crook. This is one of director Richard Fleischer's earliest features. He'd go on to make several other memorable movies. See more Sep 30, 2019 Noir mas del montòn, nada original. See more Jun 19, 2016 The title says it all - except that the robbery itself is over in the first 15 minutes of the film (admittedly only 67 minutes long in total). All that follows is the aftermath, which is actually a pretty taut police procedural. So, we shift from learning the plans of the clever crook who masterminds the heist (played by William Talman of Perry Mason fame) to the methods of the police lieutenant who tracks him down. Director Richard Fleischer knows how to increase the tension (e.g., a car engine stalls out at just the wrong time) and to keep things moving, just as he did in the subsequent Narrow Margin and Violent Saturday. Not sure what happened with him later as he moved into Disney fare and other oddities (Soylent Green, Conan the Barbarian). This is a good example of its genre, with a tough-as-nails cop going head to head with a bad guy who keeps his wits about him (until the somewhat inexplicable, but apt, ending punctuates the affair). See more Apr 10, 2015 a good police noir film with William Talman as master bad guy seven years later he whould be come prosecuter on Perry Mason. See more Feb 24, 2014 This is a get-the-job-done film noir, one that never rises above its no-frills title but remains always entertaining and occasionally surprisingly suspenseful. Director Richard Fleischer wisely shoots the cops and criminals with equal attention and never gives either side a chance to overlap the other as the most interesting camp in the picture. The performances are pretty bland, except for Charles McGraw as a no B.S. detective on the case less for the taxpayers and more for bloody revenge after his partner is killed by the heist gang on the run. Clocking in at just over an hour, this is a nice crime picture for a rainy night. See more Feb 10, 2013 Tight low-budget noir about a heist that, of course, goes wrong. The film reminded me of Kubrick's "The Killing" in many ways, but it's not quite that good. Still, director Richard Fleischer created a fast paced film that doesn't have any fat, and Charles McGraw is his usual tough self as the cop on the robbers' trail. See more Read all reviews

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