****SPOILERS*** Glitzy and dazzling as well as totally confusing robbery caper that ends up with what looks like a nuclear explosion in the Nevada Desert. Garry Lockwood as Tony Ferris is down back on earth fresh from his success in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". Tony is the main man in this caper that has to do with the robbery of an impregnable Skorsky armored truck of its $7.000.000.00 in cash as well as gold bars headed for safe keeping at the 1st Nevada Saving Bank in Carson City. Tony had planned this robbery well using the president of Skorsky Armored Trucks Steve Sorsky. Lee J. Cobb,private secretary the sexy blond Ann Bennett, Elke Sommers, to tip him off when the truck is going to leave as well as what route it will take.
Getting together a crew to pull off the heist Tony has other reasons, with those working for him not knowing about it, to knock off the armored truck and it doesn't have anything to do with money but personal revenge: It was Tony's brother Gino, Jean Servais, who tried to rob a Skorsky armored truck two years ago in San Francisco and ended up, together with his crew, killed. Now Tony who always lived in his brother Gino's shadows whats to prove to himself that he can succeed where his big brother Gino didn't. Thrown into the mix is US Treasury Agent Douglas, Jack Palance, who's been on Steve Skorsky's case for the last six months in suspecting that he's been laundering mob money from the Las Vegas's casinos to supplement his high flying & jet-set lifestyle that his trucking business , with all the money it makes , can't quite keep up with!
The movie gets carried away with the overlong robbery that after the Skorsky truck was captured it took more then half of the remaining time in the movie to crack it open. With almost all the robbery crew dead as well as those in the truck who had enough food water and oxygen to last for 72 hours joining them. With one surprise after another the film ended with a big bang that rivaled the Trinity Bomb explosion back in 1945 that woke up those of us watching who in how confusing the movie was had trouble staying awake.
P.S The big star of the film Gary Lockwood just dropped off the radar screen after making this overcooked turkey of and movie and never quit made it back to the big screen again. Lockwood ended up doing bit and guest parts on TV series that never had him use his full talents as an actor that he showed earlier in his film career.
Getting together a crew to pull off the heist Tony has other reasons, with those working for him not knowing about it, to knock off the armored truck and it doesn't have anything to do with money but personal revenge: It was Tony's brother Gino, Jean Servais, who tried to rob a Skorsky armored truck two years ago in San Francisco and ended up, together with his crew, killed. Now Tony who always lived in his brother Gino's shadows whats to prove to himself that he can succeed where his big brother Gino didn't. Thrown into the mix is US Treasury Agent Douglas, Jack Palance, who's been on Steve Skorsky's case for the last six months in suspecting that he's been laundering mob money from the Las Vegas's casinos to supplement his high flying & jet-set lifestyle that his trucking business , with all the money it makes , can't quite keep up with!
The movie gets carried away with the overlong robbery that after the Skorsky truck was captured it took more then half of the remaining time in the movie to crack it open. With almost all the robbery crew dead as well as those in the truck who had enough food water and oxygen to last for 72 hours joining them. With one surprise after another the film ended with a big bang that rivaled the Trinity Bomb explosion back in 1945 that woke up those of us watching who in how confusing the movie was had trouble staying awake.
P.S The big star of the film Gary Lockwood just dropped off the radar screen after making this overcooked turkey of and movie and never quit made it back to the big screen again. Lockwood ended up doing bit and guest parts on TV series that never had him use his full talents as an actor that he showed earlier in his film career.