Money Movers (1978)

Directed by

Bruce Beresford

Genre

heist film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

R

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Australian crime film follows a security company that moves large sums of cash for banks. It shows the planning and aftermath of an armored car robbery, revealing widespread police corruption and brutality.

tensegrittysuspensefulviolentbleaknoir-ishhard-boiledraw

What happens

Money Movers is a 1978 Australian crime action drama film written and directed by Bruce Beresford. The film was based on the 1972 novel The Money Movers by Devon Minchin, founder of Metropolitan Security Services. The story deals loosely with two real-life events, the 1970 Sydney Armoured Car Robbery where A$500,000 was stolen from a Mayne Nickless armoured van, and a 1970 incident when A$280,000 was stolen from Metropolitan Security Services' offices by bandits impersonating policemen. Money Movers is "one of the few films of the 1970s that deal with crime and police corruption as an entrenched state of being, and one of the earliest to embrace extremely violent action." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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