The Great Riviera Bank Robbery (1979), also known as Dirty Money, is a motion picture written and directed by Francis Megahy. Main actors Ian McShane, Warren Clarke, Stephen Greif, and Christopher Malcolm.
Synopsis
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery is based on a real-life event in 1976. A group of professional criminals team up with a fascist terrorist group known as "The Chain" to steal 15 million dollars' worth of tourist money from a bank in a French resort town.
Miscellanea
Two movies were made at the same time that both dealt with the same subject--a true life event of ex-firebrands using the sewers to rob a bank.
The French version, made by Jose Giovanni, (Les Egouts du Paradis = Sewers of Paradise) kept the hero's real name but is rather listless. The "hero" becomes a nice guy, some kind of Arsene Lupin, who visits the old ladies in the hospital.
The English version, which features a better lead (Ian McShane billed as "Brain") and a more honest approach. The characters are fascists (anti communist) and their paramilitary activities are not passed over in silence--in the French attempt, all they show is weapons in the thieves' den in the country. When they left the vault, a parting message was written on the wall, which said; "we came with no malice; but went in peace".
References
- ^ "The Great Riviera Bank Robbery > Overview". allmovie.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
External links
- The Great Riviera Bank Robbery at the Internet Movie Database
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