Armored Car Robbery

Movie
Original title	Armored Car Robbery
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1950
length	67 minutes
Rod
Director	Richard Fleischer
script	Earl Felton ; Gerald Drayson Adams
production	Herman Schlom
camera	Guy Roe
cut	Desmond Marquette
occupation
	Charles McGraw : Police Lieutenant Jim Cordell; William Talman : Dave Purvis; Adele Jergens : Yvonne Le Doux; Douglas Fowley : Benny McBride; Steve Brodie : Al Mapes; Don McGuire : Danny Ryan; James Flavin : Police Lieutenant Phillips; Gene Evans : William "Ace" Foster;

Armored Car Robbery is in black and white twisted American film noir and gangster film from the year 1950 .

action

Dave Purvis plans to rob a money transport in Los Angeles . In order to be able to carry out his project, he hires three more men: his acquaintance Benny McBride, with whose wife Yvonne Purvis has a relationship, and the two crooks Al Mapes and William "Ace" Foster. The attack succeeds, but Lieutenant Phillips is killed in a shootout and McBride is seriously injured. Phillips' partner Jim Cordell vows to hunt down the criminals.

Because of his injury, McBride prevents the quartet from escaping, but Purvis refuses to see a doctor. When McBride uses gun violence to force a doctor's visit, Purvis shoots him. He then beats Mapes together because the latter insists on the split of McBride's share. Shortly thereafter, Cordell and a police force arrive at the gang's hideout. Foster is shot, Purvis and Mapes manage to escape separately.

Cordell has McBride's widow Yvonne monitored in order to get to the other gang members through her. Mapes is arrested while trying to contact her, but Purvis, suspecting a police trap, stays away from her. It is only when Cordell's new partner Ryan poses as Mapes to Yvonne so that she can bring him to Purvis that he gives up his game of hide-and-seek. Purvis shoots Ryan and rushes to the airport with Yvonne to escape in a chartered private plane. When asked by the police, Purvis runs onto the tarmac and is hit by a landing plane. His suitcase opens and the bills are scattered across the landing area.

background

Armored Car Robbery opened in American theaters on June 8, 1950. In Germany , he did not reach the performance.

criticism

"A role model for his type of film [...] which uses original locations in Los Angeles in an excellent way and uses a great contrasting lighting to merge reality and the film noir look."

- Tom Milne , Time Out Film Guide

Web links

Armored Car Robbery in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward (Ed.): Film Noir. An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, Third Edition. Overlook / Duckworth, New York / Woodstock / London 1992, ISBN 978-0-87951-479-2 , p. 13.
^ "[...] a model of its kind [...] making excellent use of LA locations, it relies on superb high contrast lighting to meld reality into the characteristic noir look." - Time Out Film Guide, Seventh Edition 1999. Penguin, London 1998, p. 39.

[silver-ward-1] Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward (Ed.): Film Noir. An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, Third Edition. Overlook / Duckworth, New York / Woodstock / London 1992, ISBN 978-0-87951-479-2 , p. 13.

[2] "[...] a model of its kind [...] making excellent use of LA locations, it relies on superb high contrast lighting to meld reality into the characteristic noir look." - Time Out Film Guide, Seventh Edition 1999. Penguin, London 1998, p. 39.