Wednesday, March 2, 2011

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1960)

Very slow movie, but the reason I watched it is because it is based on an actual event. The director used the real policeman and real bank customers in the movie, the ones that were there that day the bank heist happened. They were asked to act in the movie the same way they did during the real thing. And of course the other reason I watched the movie is because it starts Steve McQueen. The movie is about 4 men who plan a heist and completely botch it. They are psychotic in nature, they are not normal people. I give this 2.5 stars. My favorite parts of the movie deal with the director allowing the characters to portray just how nuts they were. It allows the viewer to predict that people this dumb could never pull off a heist.

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