The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)
- Directed by
- Charles Guggenheim
- Genre
- heist film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 36 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A college dropout is recruited to drive the getaway car for a bank robbery. The film follows the planning and execution of the heist, with local police and residents reenacting their real-life roles from an actual 1953 robbery attempt.
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What happens
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (also called The St. Louis Bank Robbery, the film title in the opening credits) is a 1959 American heist film directed by Charles Guggenheim and starring Steve McQueen as a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery. Based on a 1953 bank robbery attempt of Southwest Bank in St. Louis, the film was shot on location in 1958. It features some of the men and women from the St. Louis Police Department, as well as local residents and bank employees, reenacting their roles during the actual robbery attempt. Between filming and the film's release, Steve McQueen gained national recognition with his breakout role as Josh Randall in the TV series Wanted Dead or Alive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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