Robbery (film)

Robbery (film)

"For the crime, see robbery".

Infobox Film
name = Robbery


image_size =
caption =
director = Peter Yates
producer = Stanley Baker
Michael Deeley
writer = Edward Boyd
Peter Yates
George Markstein
narrator =
starring = Stanley Baker
Joanna Pettet
James Booth
music = Johnny Keating
cinematography = Geoffrey Unsworth
editing = Reginald Beck
distributor = Paramount
Embassy
released = August, 1967
runtime = 110 min.
country = U.K.
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:41629
imdb_id = 0062207

"Robbery" is a 1967 British crime film directed by Peter Yates. The story is a heavily fictionalised version of the 1963 Great Train Robbery.

The cast includes Stanley Baker, James Booth, Frank Finlay and Barry Foster

The film was produced by Stanley Baker and Michael Deeley, for Baker's company Oakhurst Productions.

The film is notable for its car chase sequences, and lead to its director, Peter Yates, being hired to direct the Hollywood crime film "Bullitt", the following year.

The opening scene shows an aerial shot of a car-lined Hatton Garden. A 'traffic warden' places a time-delay device inside a parked car. A chauffeur appears from a jewellers with his master who is ushered into the car and then wafted away at speed. The car, a Vanden Plas 4 litre is followed at a distance by an ambulance containing two villains dressed as ambulancemen. The car eventually crashes into a skip after its occupants are gased driving along Nothumberland Avenue. The ambulance promptly arrives at the scene taking away the passenger with a briefcase chained to his hand. News of the abduction reaches the police and a car chase breaks out after the villains abandon the ambulance for a Jaguar MK II in a North West London housing estate. The chase begins and after many miles the diamond robbers eventually get away - the diamonds raising a chunk of money for what is later dubbed 'The Crime of the Century'. All of the exterior locations for Robbery were filmed in and around Central London and include great period shots of Marble Arch, Trafalgar Square, Little Venice & Kensal Green.

External links

*imdb title|id=0062207|title=Robbery


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • The Great Train Robbery (film) — Infobox Film name = The Great Train Robbery |thumb director = Edwin S. Porter writer = Edwin S. Porter based on the 1896 play by Scott Marble starring = Justus D. Barnes Gilbert M. Anderson producer = distributor = Edison Manufacturing Company… …   Wikipedia

  • Film editing — is part of the creative post production process of filmmaking. It involves the selection and combining of shots into sequences, and ultimately creating a finished motion picture. It is an art of storytelling. Film editing is the only art that is… …   Wikipedia

  • Film tinting — is the process of adding color to black and white film, usually by means of soaking the film in dye and staining the film emulsion. The effect is that all of the light shining through is filtered, so that what would be white light is, in fact,… …   Wikipedia

  • Robbery — This article is about the crime. For the 1967 film, see Robbery (1967 film). For the 1897 film, see Robbery (1897 film). For the Teena Marie album, see Robbery (album). Holdup redirects here. For the contract bridge playing technique, see Hold up …   Wikipedia

  • Robbery Under Arms — Infobox Book | name = Robbery Under Arms. A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia. image caption = First edition. Three octavo volumes (7 3/16 x 4 13/16 inches; 182 x 122 mm.). Original smooth grass green… …   Wikipedia

  • Robbery Homicide Division — infobox television show name = Robbery Homicide Division caption = Sgt. Simms (Barry Shabaka Henley) Lt. Cole (Tom Sizemore) A Life of Its Own format = Drama runtime = 1 hour per episode creator = Barry Schindel starring = Tom Sizemore David… …   Wikipedia

  • Film noir — Two silhouetted figures in The Big Combo (1955). The film s cinematographer was John Alton, the creator of many of film noir s iconic images …   Wikipedia

  • film noir —    It is easy to identify STANLEY KUBRICK’s KILLER’S KISS (1955) and THE KILLING (1956) as examples of the kind of noir films that reflect the corruption of a postwar world. The term film noir was not in common use in the film industry itself at… …   The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick

  • $ (film) — $ Original film poster Directed by Richard Brooks Produced by M.J. Frankovich …   Wikipedia

  • Film muet — Cinéma muet Cinéma …   Wikipédia en Français

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”