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Robbery (1967)

Robbery poster
Directed by
Peter Yates
Genre
drama film, heist film, crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
12
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 53 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A team of thieves plans and executes a major train heist in Britain. The film follows the criminals as they carry out the robbery and the police who try to catch them.

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What happens

Robbery is a 1967 British crime film directed by Peter Yates and starring Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet and James Booth. The story is a heavily fictionalised version of the 1963 Great Train Robbery. The film was produced by Stanley Baker and Michael Deeley, for Baker's company Oakhurst Productions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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