Friday, July 1, 2011

Armored Car Robbery (1950)


RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Richard Fleischer
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros.)

William Talman leads a group of criminals who pull off a heist in front of a baseball stadium in broad daylight. It doesn't quite go as planned and a police officer is killed. The officer's partner, played by Charles McGraw, is determined to catch the one responsible. He is smarter than your average cop, expertly following clues and using every trick of technology available at the time. Meanwhile, Talman has plans to ditch his partners and get away with all of the money as well as the girl. Intelligent, fast-paced and well-acted, better than most movies twice its length.

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