The Great Riviera Bank Robbery (1979)

Directed by

Francis Megahy

Genre

drama film, heist film, crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

16

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1976 France, a neo-fascist group and professional criminals join forces to rob a bank vault in a resort town. The plan is complicated by internal tension and the risk of getting caught.

tensegrittymethodicaldarksuspensefulnoirishseriousdeliberate

What happens

The Great Riviera Bank Robbery, also known as Dirty Money and Sewers of Gold, is a 1979 British heist film written and directed by Francis Megahy and starring Ian McShane, Warren Clarke, Stephen Greif and Christopher Malcolm. In the film, based on a bank robbery masterminded by Albert Spaggiari in 1976, members of a neo-fascist group team up with professional criminals to rob the safe deposit vault of a bank in a French resort town. It is the British version of the French film Les Égouts du paradis, released the same year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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