Word: heist
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...located in the former home of Isabella Stewart Gardner, an early 20th-century society woman and art collector. Because she stipulated in her will that the permanent collection of the museum not be altered, empty frames stand where three Rembrandts and a Vermeer were stolen in an 1990 heist. You can get to these museums by taking the Green Line E train to the Museum of Fine Arts stop...
...Mick Jagger. The folks at ABC changed the title to Let's Rob ..., then to the head-scratching The Knights of Prosperity. At some point, one suspects, they will redub it Please Don't Watch This Sitcom, but don't listen to them. This blue-collar heist comedy is a riot by any name...
...Brodie), a decent Joe who's been married to loving Anne (Audrey Long) for four months, gets a call one evening to make some easy money driving his truck for Walt (Raymond Burr), a guy he used to know. The truck, Steve learns, is to be used for a heist, and when he protests he's forced into it, and spotted by the police. He gets away, but Walt's brother Al is picked up. Now Steve is on the bad side of the cops and, worse, Walt. The big man has an unattractive side: sadistic psychosis. He breaks...
...noir terms, the problem with Desperate was that it had a hero. Mann's next film, Railroaded!, corrects that lapse into sentimentality. It tells a story similar to Desperate's, but from the bad guy's point of view. Gangsters pull off a heist, it goes wrong, and they blame it on the innocent guy whose truck they used. But the movie quickly shifts its focus from the decent victim, Steve (bland Ed Kelly), to the psycho, Duke Martin (strutting John Ireland), who has a dandy's affectations - he uses perfumed bullets - and promiscuous trigger finger. In the film...
They stole the wrong money. last February, in Tonbridge, England, a gang of thugs pulled off an audacious $97 million heist of a cash storage depot. They were good enough to get into the warehouse (requiring military-style reconnaissance and intelligence), and good enough to get out with the loot (requiring serious logistical planning), but they failed when it came to Stage 3 - making the money disappear. In late June, long after the story had fallen off the front pages, four more people were arrested in relation to the case - one of them in Morocco - and another million pounds...