Armored Car Robbery

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Audience Member Super crime film with excellent performances by the entire cast. Special props to Adele Jergens who played the femme fatale role and William Talman portraying the sinister homicidal crook. This is one of director Richard Fleischer's earliest features. He'd go on to make several other memorable movies. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Noir mas del montòn, nada original. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Fleischer's minimalist noir exercise Armored Car Robbery stars William Talman as the chief crook and Charles McGraw as the detective dogging his trail. A shade smarter than his gang underlings, Talman manages to elude capture, and even travels freely about in the company of his flashy lady friend Adele Jergens. But McGraw's persistence eventually pays off. Don McGuire, later a prolific TV producer/director, provides a welcome touch of comic relief as McGraw's rookie-cop assistant. A powerful (and slightly gruesome) climax caps this low-budget gem. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member The 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). Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member a good police noir film with William Talman as master bad guy seven years later he whould be come prosecuter on Perry Mason. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member This 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. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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