It tells the story of a wellplanned robbery of cash from an armored car when it stops at a sports stadium. Armored car robbery 1950 richard fleischer synopsis. Armored car robbery 2006 stream and watch online moviefone. Full international trailer for nimrod antals the whiskey robber film. Armored car robbery is a 1950 american film noir directed by richard fleischer and starring charles mcgraw, adele jergens, and william talman armored car robbery is a heist movie, a subgenre of crimebased films. With charles mcgraw, adele jergens, william talman, douglas fowley. Most popular armored truck robbery movies and tv shows imdb. This is nice short film noir with a really good criminal and pretty a decent femme fatale. With zach galifianakis, kristen wiig, owen wilson, ross kimball.
Spectacular stickup stuns the nation the film tells the story of a wellplanned robbery of an armored car when it stops at a sports stadium. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, rough and suspense films and tv shows about with armored truck, murder, heist, crimes, betrayal, violence, chase, death, security guard and gunfight plots mostly in crime, drama and thriller genres shot in usa. Armored car robbery official trailer good caper film starring mcgraw as a cop out to get revenge on a gang that killed his buddy during an armored car holdup. I bumped this up in the queue due to the suggestions from arsaib gilbert and steve g. A very solid b movie where an armored car gets robbed. The movie has been called the quintessential lowbudget heist melodrama. Volume 5 cornered desperate the phenix city story deadline at dawn armored car robbery and more. Most popular armored car robbery movies and tv shows imdb. I guess i had no reason for expecting so much, but i always thought it looked like such a cool little film. Clip of the beginning of the movie, where group of thieves raid on the cash collectors bus with massive shootout nick obrien is the harddrinking leader of the regulators, an elite unit of the. Most popular armored car robbery movies and tv shows. Like the narrow margin, his partner gets killed almost right away. Phillips james flavin before he and his cronies make off with the loot. There is one interesting robbery, but technically its an armored truck heist also, having been shot by fritz lang for an earlier film, the scene doesnt quite fit the rest of the movie.
Fleischer, a master of film noir b movies at rko early in his career, and stars noir veterans charles mcgraw, adele jergens and william talman. Fleischers minimalist noir exercise armored car robbery stars william talman as the chief crook and charles mcgraw as the detective dogging his trail. The list contains the best, new and most relevant armored car robbery movies ordered by relevance. Authorities hunt for 3 in armored truck heist in denver area there were no reported injuries in wednesdays heist in greenwood village. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing armored car robbery near you.
The list contains the best, new and most relevant armored truck movies ordered by relevance. Follow the movie on facebook and twitter plot summary following his return from iraq, ty hackett columbus short takes a job at the same armored car company where his father worked. Its full of parts that would trickle down to other heist movies like the killing all the way down to heat. The arrival 1996 arrival 2016 the art of the fart 2004 artemisia 1997 arthur 1981 the artist 2011 as you like it 2006 the asphalt jungle 1950 assassination of a high school president 2008 the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford 2007 the assassination of richard. Directed by richard fleischer sound by frank sarver and clem portman. An extremely scientific ranking of some of the best heistmovie heists, graded on. Jan 02, 2020 todays movie is armored car robbery 1950. The film tells the story of a wellplanned robbery of an armored car when it stops at a sports stadium. Start by selecting add to favorites on the info screen of any show, movie or team. Armored car robbery is a heist movie, a subgenre of crimebased films.
Charles mcgraw is in this, but not as much as he was in the narrow margin. The robbery was committed by loomis vault supervisor david scott ghantt, his married girlfriend kelly campbell a former loomis coworker, steven eugene chambers a onetime fbi informant, his wife michelle. Nicholas gregory, 41, an alleged mastermind of the december 1982 robbery who was a fugitive for two years, was convicted of bank robbery, interstate. Armored car robbery is a 1950 american film noir directed by richard fleischer and starring charles mcgraw, adele jergens, and william talman. Nov 01, 2019 the fbi says that armored vehicle robbery is punishable up to a 20year prison sentence for each offense and increases if a dangerous weapon is used in the commission of the crime.
A newbie guard for an armored truck company is coerced by his veteran coworkers to. Champion competitive marksman ken comes across an armored van robbery. Released april 3rd, 2006, armored car robbery stars charles mcgraw, adele jergens, william talman, james flavin the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 8 min, and received a score of out of 100. Armored car robbery 1950 rotten tomatoes movie trailers.
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