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Robbery

1967, Movie, NR, 114 mins

Robbery: Review

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The title gives away the plot in this fast-moving British caper film that tips its hat to RIFIFI. Instead of ending with a chase, this movie begins with one. Baker is the brains behind the scheme. He engineers a jewelry theft in order to raise the needed money to embark on his ultimate robbery, the heisting of 3 million pounds from a mail train going from Glasgow to London. As is usually the case in this genre, Baker has to gather a group of experts in their fields to help with the crime. The first 20 minutes of the film has almost no dialog as Baker steals a car, robs the jewels, then eludes the cops. Whereas the theft sequence in RIFIFI has no words and no music, this one benefits by Keating's knock-out score that keeps pace with the tight cutting. Baker needs one more man to complete his crew, so he breaks Finlay, a money expert, out of the slammer. Baker is on the outs with his wife, Pettet, and they have one brief romantic interlude (out of place--it doesn't work at all as it's edited more like a suspense scene than a loving one) before getting back to the business of thievery. The train is successfully held up, and the gang members assemble at an unused airfield to divvy up the swag. Robinson calls his wife, but Scotland Yard man Booth is already on the case and has the house phone tapped. The coppers rush to the gang's hideout and grab all the crooks, save one: Baker escapes to the US with the money. There's a bare minimum of dialog as director Yates allows the faces and the actions to deliver the story. It's based on a real train robbery that took place in England, for which many were captured. The leader of that gang is, at this writing, happily living in Brazil with a new wife and children. leave a comment
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