Armored Car Robbery is a 1950 American film noir shot in a semi-documentary style, directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charles McGraw. The movie was filmed on location in Los Angeles, California.
Armored Car Robbery is one of the first of the heist movies, a sub-genre of the crime film. Fleischer (son of animator Max Fleischer) would go on to direct big-budget films, but he is perhaps best remembered for this and The Narrow Margin (1952),...
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Armored Car Robbery is a 1950 American film noir shot in a semi-documentary style, directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charles McGraw. The movie was filmed on location in Los Angeles, California.
Armored Car Robbery is one of the first of the heist movies, a sub-genre of the crime film. Fleischer (son of animator Max Fleischer) would go on to direct big-budget films, but he is perhaps best remembered for this and The Narrow Margin (1952), which date from his time working for RKO Radio Pictures. (Fleischer's first movie had been the 1948 comedy So This Is New York, starring Henry Morgan.)
The film tells the story of a well-planned robbery of cash from an armored car when it stops at a sports stadium. Yet, the heist goes awry, a police officer is shot dead, and a tough Los Angeles cop named Cordell (Charles McGraw) sets off in hot pursuit of the culprits.
Mastermind Dave Purvis (William Talman) is a professional criminal who devises a scheme to rob an armored car on its last...
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