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Bank Shot

Play trailer Poster for Bank Shot PG Released Jul 31, 1974 1h 23m Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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With the help of his bumbling partner, Al G. Karp (Sorrell Booke), master thief Walter Upjohn Ballentine (George C. Scott) breaks out of prison and resumes his illustrious criminal career. Ballentine recruits a team of mismatched misfits including lock-picking expert Hermann X (Frank McRae) and the disarmingly lovely Eleonora (Joanna Cassidy). Ballentine's team lays the groundwork for a heist at a new bank branch -- one conveniently, though only temporarily, located in a wheeled trailer.
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Don Druker Chicago Reader The best thing about the film is Harry Stradling Jr.'s super photography - but that's scarcely enticement to see a really minor Scott vehicle. Mar 23, 2010 Full Review Dick Lochte Los Angeles Free Press Bank Shot is breezy good fun, and if its delights don't drive you to the same gusts of hilarity Cassidy employs, you will find a lot to chuckle over. Dec 12, 2019 Full Review Bernard Drew Gannett News Service Nothing saves Bank Shot from total disaster. Not even George C. Scott's performance as a criminal mastermind. Oct 29, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member oh boy u guessed it another caper/heist pic Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Fun comic heist film from a Donald E. Westlake novel (the sequel to "The Hot Rock") involving George C. Scott (with very silly eyebrows and playing the same character Robert Redford played in "The Hot Rock") breaking out of prison and hatching a scheme to steal an entire bank building. It's a comedy that won't blow you away, but it's entertaining enough if you're in the moody for a caper comedy. Joanna Cassidy, Sorrell Booke, Bob Balaban and Frank McRae also appear in the film. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review walter m In "Bank Shot," Al G. Carp(Sorrell Booke) visits his friend Walter Ballentine(George C. Scott) in prison with a plan for a bank robbery. In return, Ballentine is so impressed with the plan that he pulls off a daring escape the following day with a little help from Eleonora(Joanna Cassidy). Once in Los Angeles, they are joined by Carp's nephew Victor(Bob Balaban, incredibly young), formerly of the FBI, where Ballentine decides that the best way to rob the bank is to steal the entire building. "Bank Shot" is an often amusing piece of nonsense, that succeeds best when it does not try so hard, crossing the line from the silly to the absurd. I suppose most people would make George C. Scott the straight man here with such a motley circus of characters but Ballentine is as much a nut, no matter how seriously he takes his job; so it works, along with a few masterful shot compositions. In any case, the movie made me laugh and that's the important thing, right? Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member If, for reasons defying logic and all that is holy, you've been wondering why there haven't been more attempts at mixing a Herbie movie with a heist movie, I believe here's your answer. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member A hilarious bank robbing movie, it's sort of slapstick too. This movie is really fun, I recommend it. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member I enjoyed this movie regardless of some of the negative things said about it.Scott definetely holds it up it wouldnt be nearly as good without him. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis With the help of his bumbling partner, Al G. Karp (Sorrell Booke), master thief Walter Upjohn Ballentine (George C. Scott) breaks out of prison and resumes his illustrious criminal career. Ballentine recruits a team of mismatched misfits including lock-picking expert Hermann X (Frank McRae) and the disarmingly lovely Eleonora (Joanna Cassidy). Ballentine's team lays the groundwork for a heist at a new bank branch -- one conveniently, though only temporarily, located in a wheeled trailer.
Director
Gower Champion
Producer
Hal Landers, Bobby Roberts
Screenwriter
Wendell Mayes
Production Co
Landers-Roberts Productions
Rating
PG
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 31, 1974, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 16, 2008
Runtime
1h 23m
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