The big thing at Brinks
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The big thing at Brinks |
| Original title | The Brink's job |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | William Friedkin |
| script | Walon Green |
| production |
Dino De Laurentiis , Ralph B. Serpe |
| music | Richard Rodney Bennett |
| camera | Norman Leigh |
| cut |
Robert K. Lambert , Bud S. Smith |
| occupation | |
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The Brink's Job ( The Brink's Job ) is an American comedy thriller from the year 1978 . Directed by William Friedkin and written by Walon Green after the novel The big thing at Brink's ( Big Stick Up At Brink's ) by Noel Behn .
action
The action takes place in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. The not particularly successful petty criminal Tony Pino discovers that the security precautions of the money transport company Brink’s are inadequate. First a money truck is robbed, then the company's Boston headquarters. The second raid takes about two million US dollars .
The FBI suspects political background to the crime and is looking for the guilty party among the communists. As a signaling effect, a multiple of the captured money is invested in solving the case. After one member testified, the gang goes to jail. The gangsters are led away to applause from the population.
background
The film was shot in Boston and a few other locations in Massachusetts .
The plot takes up the robbery of January 17, 1950 on the money transport company Brink's in Boston as a subject . Eleven armed men looted $ 1,218,211 in cash and over $ 1.5 million in checks, money orders and other securities. It was the largest armed robbery in the United States to date. The gang members were identified after a few years and sentenced to prison terms. Only a small part of the booty has been discovered and returned.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on March 12, 1979 that the film was so good that it was surprising that it would not be a big box-office success. He is " clever ", " skillful " and often very funny. The 1950s are represented correctly. The director developed characters that were both funny and so realistic that you could empathize with them.
The magazine prisma wrote that the cast was "in an excellent mood "; especially the game was praised by Peter Falk.
Awards
The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1979 for Best Production Design ( Dean Tavoularis ) .
literature
- Noel Behn : The big thing at Brink's. Novel. The legendary Boston millionaire robbery . (Original title: Big Stick-up at Brink's! ). German by Jürgen Abel . Unabridged paperback edition. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1985, 480 pages, ISBN 3-548-20528-3
Web links
- The Brink's Job in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Brink's Job at Rotten Tomatoes (English)