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The Alpha Caper (1973)

The Alpha Caper poster
Directed by
Robert Michael Lewis
Genre
heist film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 15m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A parole officer is forced into early retirement and resents the city officials who pushed him out. He plans to steal a gold shipment as an act of revenge.

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What happens

The Alpha Caper (also known as The Inside Job) is a 1973 American made-for-television crime thriller film directed by Robert Michael Lewis. It stars Henry Fonda as an embittered parole officer forced into early retirement, who decides to take revenge against the city officials by stealing a gold shipment being moved to a new depository. The television film was the final production of producer Aubrey Schenck and was a television pilot for an American television series called Crime. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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