
Dave Purvis takes pride in being unknown to the law, though famed among fellow crooks as a planner He plots a holdup in meticulous detail; but things go wrong, a cop and two robbers are killed, and Purvis hides out with the money while Lieut. Cordell, friend of the dead cop, investigates. Purvis's new getaway plan shows promise, but may have one tiny flaw.... (Full plot summary below)
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Dave Purvis takes pride in being unknown to the law, though famed among fellow crooks as a planner He plots a holdup in meticulous detail; but things go wrong, a cop and two robbers are killed, and Purvis hides out with the money while Lieut. Cordell, friend of the dead cop, investigates. Purvis's new getaway plan shows promise, but may have one tiny flaw.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAn exciting film noir robbery escapade set in LA. |
| User ReviewJohn GThis was a double bill with Asphalt Jungle at the New Bev and I thought it was really good as well; nicely written and paced and quick from start to finish . . . |
| User ReviewAdam SBefore "The Narrow Margin", director Richard Fleischer and star Charles McGraw made this lightening quick (67-minutes) master class in cat-and-mouse noir, with McGraw's obsessive detective trailing the thief who killed his partner during the title heist. Filmed at RKO and in and around real L.A. locations. |
| User ReviewAllan CAn exciting film noir robbery escapade set in LA. good B movie fare. |
| User ReviewPaul DAn RKO b-movie crime thriller, but one that has pace and an easy to follow story. |
| User ReviewZoran SNice and gritty detective story about, yes, a armored car robbery. A team successfully pulls off the job, and the cops try to figure it out. Pretty basic, but still fun all the same! |
| User ReviewAdam DThis 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. |
| User ReviewMichael GSolid heist film that stands out by showing solid police work instead of the norm to have wild detective theories and genius criminals. It's lean and to the point, so it never gets dull. The stripper has the lamest act ever though. |
| User ReviewMartin TSolid hardboiled film noir from director Richard Fleischer. It does have its melodramatic moments, but it's tightly-plotted with great moody black and white photography and tough-talking characters. Good B-movie fun for noir fans. |
| User ReviewDave JThe 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). |