A well-planned robbery goes awry with tough cop Jim Cordell in pursuit of the thieves.A well-planned robbery goes awry with tough cop Jim Cordell in pursuit of the thieves.A well-planned robbery goes awry with tough cop Jim Cordell in pursuit of the thieves.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Eddie Borden
- Theatrical Agent
- (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
- Cop at Roadblock
- (uncredited)
Barry Brooks
- Witmer - Armored Car Driver
- (uncredited)
Morgan Brown
- Burlesque Theatre Patron
- (uncredited)
Paul Bryar
- Car 6 Patrolman at Pier 5
- (uncredited)
James Bush
- Control Tower Operator
- (uncredited)
Roger Creed
- Police Radio Operator
- (uncredited)
Dick Dickinson
- Newsboy
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThere was a Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. It opened 1925 and mostly used by the Pacific Coast Minor league team the Los Angeles Angels. In 1961 the Los Angeles Angels played their first major league season there. It was demolished in 1969.
- GoofsWhen the Tower notices another plane coming in for a landing on the main runway; the private plane was warned to pull up. But the private plane was still on the ground and not in the take-off stage. It was just taxiing and then it stopped, therefore, it made no sense for the air controller to tell the plane to pull up.
- Quotes
Ryan: [On the phone] We hit pay dirt. The gal in question is Yvonne LeDoux, a bur-le-q queen workin' out of the Bijou Theater, but that's not all. She's also the widow of the late Benny McBride'
Lt. Jim Cordell: Benny's wife, huh?
Ryan: You should see her workin' clothes Imagine a dish like this married to a mug like Benny McBride... the naked and the dead.
Lt. Jim Cordell: Very funny.
- Crazy creditsIn the film's opening credits, the title is surrounded by quotation marks.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Palookaville (1995)
Featured review
What a marvelous and underrated little gem!!
Wow, was I ever impressed by this little film. While ARMORED CAR ROBBERY is not an especially sexy title and the film possesses no real star power, it is a wonderfully effective and superbly written little B-movie directed by a young Richard Fleischer. So far in his career Fleischer had directed some shorts and a couple undistinguished films and it was several years before he gained fame with THE NARROW MARGIN (also a wonderful B-film starring Charles McGraw), THE VIKINGS and SOYLENT GREEN. So, since he was an unknown, they gave him mostly unknowns for the film. The biggest name in it was Charles McGraw--a great heavy and supporting actor who'd been around but still hadn't made a name for himself. Additionally, William Talman plays the leader of the bad guys and while you most likely won't recognize his name, he is the man who played Hamilton Burger on the "Perry Mason" TV show.
While McGraw was as wonderful as I'd expected since I'd seen him in quite a few great Film Noir movies, I was particularly impressed by Talman. As Ham Burger, he was a bland and one-note character--the jerk who ALWAYS lost to Perry Mason. But here, he was a very cold, calculating and scary man because he was so believable and amoral. It's a darn shame that this role didn't result in better roles--he really showed he could act.
The film is naturally about an armored car robbery and it was rather straight-forward in its plotting. However, because the dialog and the rest of the writing was so true to life, it really jumped out at me. While it did have a few great Noir-like lines (spoken mostly by the great McGraw), it emphasized reality over style and seemed like a very honest crime drama more than anything else. While it lacked the tension of THE NARROW MARGIN, it made up for it with quality at every level--resulting in a marvelous and generally unrecognized little gem. Watch this film--it's dandy.
While McGraw was as wonderful as I'd expected since I'd seen him in quite a few great Film Noir movies, I was particularly impressed by Talman. As Ham Burger, he was a bland and one-note character--the jerk who ALWAYS lost to Perry Mason. But here, he was a very cold, calculating and scary man because he was so believable and amoral. It's a darn shame that this role didn't result in better roles--he really showed he could act.
The film is naturally about an armored car robbery and it was rather straight-forward in its plotting. However, because the dialog and the rest of the writing was so true to life, it really jumped out at me. While it did have a few great Noir-like lines (spoken mostly by the great McGraw), it emphasized reality over style and seemed like a very honest crime drama more than anything else. While it lacked the tension of THE NARROW MARGIN, it made up for it with quality at every level--resulting in a marvelous and generally unrecognized little gem. Watch this film--it's dandy.
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- planktonrules
- Nov 16, 2007
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- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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