Charles McGraw

Adele Jergens

William Talman

Douglas Fowley

Steve Brodie

Don McGuire

Don Haggerty

James Flavin

Gene Evans

Eddie Borden

Chet Brandenburg

Barry Brooks

Morgan Brown

Paul Bryar

Paul E. Burns

James Bush

Roger Creed

Dick Dickinson

Art Dupuis

Fred Howard

Richard Irving

Paul Kruger

Linda Leighton

Carey Loftin

George Magrill

Allen Mathews

Max Mellinger

Anne Nagel

Anne O'Neal

Mary Randall

Carl Saxe

Frank J. Scannell

Jack Shea

William Tannen

Harlan Warde

Mack Williams

Eric Wilton

Charles Flynn

Richard Fleischer

Earl Felton

Gerald Drayson Adams

Mel Berns

Herman Schlom

Guy Roe

Desmond Marquette

Albert S. D'Agostino

Ralph Berger

C. Bakaleinikoff

Ollie Sigurdson

S.H. Barton

Thriller

Crime

Armored Car Robbery

RKO Radio Pictures

United States of America

English

Imagine a dish like this married to a mug like Benny McBride ... the naked and the dead.

Armored Car Robbery is directed by Richard Fleischer and collectively written by Earl Felton, Gerald Adams, Robert Angus and Robert Leeds. It stars William Talman, Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, Douglas Fowley, Steve Brodie and Don McGuire. Music is by Roy Webb and cinematography by Guy Roe.

When a meticulously planned robbery goes wrong, Dave Purvis (Talman) and his gang find there's a particularly driven copper closing in on them.

The caper premise has served film noir well over the years, and while Armored Car Robbery is not the hidden gem some have called it (it's no Asphalt Jungle for instance), it is still an effectively tough piece of film. The structure used by Fleischer and the writers is to show the robbery early in the piece and then unfurl the aftermath for the majority of the film. Characterisations are classic noir, the tough gang leader who consistently changes his identity to fool the cops, the foxy dame who is turning heads and is having relationships with two of the gang, the cannon fodder, the dope and the tough as nails copper who will stop at nothing to bring the bad guys down.

The pace of the story is sedate, but this is no bad thing as we get attention to detail with the manhunt and the respective psychological make ups of the thieves. The two-timing aspect in the plot adds spice (this also allows Fleischer to throw in a number of shots of Jergens doing her burlesque routine), as does the deaths of men either side of the law. The look is terrific, with high contrast photography, deep focus shots and some expressionistic lighting, all putting a splendid noir sheen over the skillful blend of studio and location (Los Angeles) sequences. Cast are on good form, especially McGraw and Talman (though Brodie is sadly under used), and Webb's score is period and story reflective.

From the smoke bomb cloaked robbery that thrills early in proceedings, to the breath holding finale played out on an airport runway, Armored Car Robbery is a sturdy and solid RKO noir that is comfortably recommended to fans of the noir cycle. 7.5/10

Armored Car Robbery (1950)  ~ Charles McGraw.  , William Talman

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Armored Car Robbery

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