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...Bank Job Directed by Roger Donaldson; rated R; out July 15 Based on the 1971 robbery of a London bank, this savory heist film adds spicy photos of aristocrats to the haul. Jason Statham, ever the East End Bruce Willis, leads the amateur cracksmen as they get tangled in about 56 subplots involving MI5, good and bad cops, porn dealers, black radicals and jealous wives. A burly, burrowing pleasure...
...says Philip Zenner, Mosler Safe Company's marketing vice president, "this country has developed by far the best-educated class of criminals we have ever had." Thus the companies are turning out ever more exotic defensive gadgets. For example, to cut alarms without the breaks being noticed, crafty cracksmen now tie in simulators that duplicate the all-safe signal. In a counterattack, both Diebold and Mosler have developed alarm attachments that transmit random signals similar to computer code, which no simulator has yet been able to imitate. Cost...
...There are four times as many crooks as policemen in the U.S., and they commit more than 1,000 burglaries a day. Four out of every ten firms that lose their records in a fire go out of business." Safecrackers keep Mosler's designers on their toes. The cracksmen keep up with the latest technology and quickly find any weak spot in a new design...
...Aloisi as his naval aide-de-camp. Austria's spy net was known to have its spider on Swiss soil at Zurich in the person of a certain Captain Mayer. On the night of Feb. 24, 1917 Spy Master Mayer's safe was rifled by expert Italian cracksmen. For the next three days the Italian frontier was closed to keep Austrian spies from escaping from Italy. They were caught and shot in batches on the evidence provided by the spy data stolen in Zurich. Since Italians have always given credit to Baron Aloisi for this exploit, they relied...
...plot, or rather the puzzle, starts with a string of stolen pearls. Two reformed cracksmen are unjustly accused of the theft and are severely put to it to prove their innocence when the very pearls turn up in their apartments...
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