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I have been on a heist film kick lately. I tracked down Grand Slam — a 1967 Italian caper movie. The embedded trailer is super corny but it samples one of the remarkable things about this movie — the Ennio Morricone score. The second remarkable thing is Janet Leigh — particularly at the end. This [...]
Having just seen two heist films in two days, I have been thinking about this list…
The Asphalt Jungle — it was first so I put it first
Rififi — the original don’t-touch-the-floor heist takes up 28 minutes in middle of the film
Le Cercle Rouge* — like Rififi, this also has an extended heist set-piece that [...]
The epilogue of The Bank Job references the “Great Train Robbery”. I understood this to be the great train robbery of 1855 — fictionalized by Michael Crichton then later filmed by him. In fact, there was a greater train robbery in 1963 to which The Bank Job refers. In any case, being a sucker for [...]