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Armored Car Robbery is a 1950 film shot in a semi-documentary style. The film, directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charles McGraw, was shot on location in Los Angeles, California. Armored Car Robbery is one of the first of the heist movies, a subgenre of the crime film. Fleisher would later go on to big budget films, but he may be best remembered for this and The Narrow Margin
from his time working for RKO.

Plot

Mastermind Dave Purvis (Talman) is crook who plans a scheme to rob an armored car on its last pickup of the day. He recruits Benny McBride to his gang of thieves. Benny needs money because his stripper wife is stepping out on him. The robbery itself, at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, starts off as planned then goes badly when a passing patrol car interrupts the heist. Purvis shoots and kills one of the cops as they make their getaway. Lt. Jim Cordell (McGraw), the dead cop's partner, takes it upon himself to bring in his partner's killer and throws himself into the case with a new rookie partner. Meanwhile, Purvis's gang begins to unravel as distrust and paranoia begins to build.

Cast

Charles McGraw
as Lt. Jim Cordell
Adele Jergens
as Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
William Talman
as Dave Purvis aka Martin Bell
Douglas Fowley
as Benjamin 'Benny' McBride
Steve Brodie
as Al Mapes

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Movies - Armored Car Robbery

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