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...avoiding gunfire from disgruntled debtors. He thought he was tough, but here he meets some people who are really out on the fritz. Here's Bud (played by Harry Dean Stanton), a frazzled repovet who first brings Otto into the business--getting him to help him with a difficult heist--and then befriends him. Then there's Lite, a huge Black repo man, who has a predilection for emptying his revolver into dark houses. Finally, we meet Miller, who works in the repo men's lot and delivers cool lines like. "The more you drive, the less intelligent...

Author: By Michael J. Hirschorn., | Title: Out of Control | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

LASSITER IS A SLOW-MOTION Magnum P.I., in tweeds. This molasses-paced fashion adventure, about an American jewel thief in 1930's London tows actor Tom Selleck through an argyle-and-herringbone wardrobe, and climaxes in a turtleneck sequence featuring a diamond heist...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Trivialities | 3/6/1984 | See Source »

...Historic heist at Heathrow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Golden Grab | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...record-setting heist last Easter bore striking similarities to last weekend's robbery. "It might be that there is a link," said a Scotland Yard spokesman, "or it might be that it is a copycat." The gang that raided the forbidding Security Express warehouse, known as "Fort Knox," seized a lone guard in the early hours of the morning, trussed up seven other employees as they arrived for work, and poured gasoline over one of their captives' legs. Once the security vault was open, the thieves loaded their booty into three waiting vans, painted yellow to resemble those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Golden Grab | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

Short of helping the thieves carry the booty to their car, Budapest's Fine Arts Museum seems to have done every thing possible to ensure the success of the heist. With apparent ease, robbers penetrated the museum's flimsy security last week and plundered its fine collection of old masters. Unhindered, they cut or lifted seven Italian paintings from their frames, then spirited them out of the building. Declared shaken Museum Director Klara Garas: "It is a catastrophe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masters of the Art | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

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