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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)
Art Dupuis
- Stadium Cashier
- (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.
- GoofsAfter he is shot, Ryan gives his location over the bugged car microphone, but the gunshot was apparently not heard. Further information: Ryan is shot outside the car while attempting to escape and later crawls back to the car and climbs partially inside and reaches for the key in the ignition under the microphone to give his location. It appears the microphone only works when the car is running or the ignition is on as the following police car loses communications when the suspect cars pulls into a lumberyard and the car's ignition is turned off.
- 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
Richard Fleischer's Armored Car Robbery is a lean little heist thriller, from which Stanley Kubrick apparently borrowed a thing or two six years later for The Killing. In a refreshing preview of truth in packaging, the title pretty much sums it up: it's the few-frills story of a criminal gang who knocks over a payroll truck at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field, followed by the inevitable falling out of thieves and their pursuit by John Law.
Coming together are several of the second string of noir actors. Charles McGraw stays as gruff as a minion of the law as he was as a menace to society; he takes the heist heavily because his partner was killed in the shoot-out. Leader of the gang is ruthless William Talman, who starred in almost as many noirs as Raymond Burr, for whom he was to co-star in the Perry Mason television franchise; while falling just shy of Burr's opulent evil, he could seed a few nightmares himself. And bringing up the distaff side is tough blonde Adele Jergens, here a `Burly-Q' headliner who never seems to lose her heavy white stole. She's making hay with Talman even though her older husband, on his uppers, also dies as a result of the truck robbery (when he pleads for a doctor for his gunshot wound, Talman shoots him, muttering his mantra `No loose ends').
Fleischer, son of legendary animator Max, was not one of the poets of the noir cycle but a wrap-it-up director with a racing pulse; The Narrow Margin (also starring McGraw) remains his best-known film. In later years he directed a number of big action pictures, few of any real distinction. His metier was probably these brief, shoestring programmers, because bigger budgets and longer running times slowed him up and made him ponderous (viz. Tora! Tora! Tora!). Armored Car Robbery endures as a testament to how good he was with the swift and blunt approach.
Coming together are several of the second string of noir actors. Charles McGraw stays as gruff as a minion of the law as he was as a menace to society; he takes the heist heavily because his partner was killed in the shoot-out. Leader of the gang is ruthless William Talman, who starred in almost as many noirs as Raymond Burr, for whom he was to co-star in the Perry Mason television franchise; while falling just shy of Burr's opulent evil, he could seed a few nightmares himself. And bringing up the distaff side is tough blonde Adele Jergens, here a `Burly-Q' headliner who never seems to lose her heavy white stole. She's making hay with Talman even though her older husband, on his uppers, also dies as a result of the truck robbery (when he pleads for a doctor for his gunshot wound, Talman shoots him, muttering his mantra `No loose ends').
Fleischer, son of legendary animator Max, was not one of the poets of the noir cycle but a wrap-it-up director with a racing pulse; The Narrow Margin (also starring McGraw) remains his best-known film. In later years he directed a number of big action pictures, few of any real distinction. His metier was probably these brief, shoestring programmers, because bigger budgets and longer running times slowed him up and made him ponderous (viz. Tora! Tora! Tora!). Armored Car Robbery endures as a testament to how good he was with the swift and blunt approach.
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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