Word: heists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer keys were being marketed by student peddlers. Detectives eventually traced the purloined papers to Brooklyn's Solomon Schechter High School, where the seals on answers stored in the principal's office were found to have been tampered with. The D.A.'s office said that the heist had been committed by two college boys and two Solomon Schechter seniors who, said school officials, were among "the brightest students in the school...
...star is Clint Eastwood, and this looks, at first glance, like his usual action feature. He plays a professional heist artist nicknamed Thunderbolt, who is hiding out after a big job and falls in with a fast-talking kid (Jeff Bridges). They bump around Montana, pursued by two of Eastwood's cronies (George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis) who had a hand in the Montana Armored robbery a couple years back and are looking for their share of the take. The take, however, has vanished, along with the one-room pioneer schoolhouse in which it was stashed...
...details too often come embedded in crude ironies: The Gangbusters radio show on the sound track while the gang sits in front of a bank planning a heist, the repeated close-ups of a quilt where the lovers first make love and on which the dead Bowie is finally carried out. Most objectionable is the embarrassing instance when a radio production of Romeo and Juliet is played during Bowie and Keetchie's first rendezvous and each of the three times they make love the voice of the narrator illogically returns with the same "Thus did Romeo and Juliet consummate their...
...reported regularly by phone to his contact, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Ron Wicken. Said Lennon: "He was kept aware at every stage of the group's activities." One such activity was an abortive payroll heist at a sewage works, which went awry when the payroll messenger did not show up. Later the group planned to raise money for the cause by staging another payroll robbery at a construction site. One of the unit's members, Pat O'Brien, was on holiday in Ireland, and Lennon was ordered by Wicken to steer clear of the caper. The three...
...Depression South. Because they figure it to be no more antisocial than starvation, the trio start to rob small-town banks. They do it with matter-of-fact efficiency, and Altman treats them in the same even way. He is not concerned with the mechanics of the heist but the social subcurrents beneath it. Almost anyone else would have included a lot of hairbreadth getaway sequences, but Altman concentrates on portraying the glowering emptiness that daily confronts the robbers. He is especially good at rendering the sort of foggy existential desperation that surrounds his characters and lies at the core...