Nick Barton

The Bank Job (2008)

Actors: John Warman (actor), Dick Clement (writer), Ryan Kavanaugh (producer), Gary Hamilton (producer), Jason Statham (actor), Chris Wilson (actor), David Suchet (actor), Colin Salmon (actor), Saffron Burrows (actress), Peter Bowles (actor), Mick Jagger (actor), Craig Fairbrass (actor), James Faulkner (actor), J. Peter Robinson (composer), Ian La Frenais (writer),

Plot: Business is slow for Terry Leather, a London car dealer, married with children. He's an artful dodger, so Martine, a former model with a thing for him, brings him her scheme: a bank's alarm is off for a couple weeks, so let's tunnel into the vault. He assembles a team, not realizing her real goal is a safe-deposit box with compromising photos of a royal: she needs the photos to trade for avoiding a jail sentence - and MI-5, or is it MI-6, is pulling the strings two steps removed. A Trinidadian thug, a high-end bordello owner, and a pornographer also have things stored in the vault, so the break-in threatens many a powerful personage. Is there any way these amateurs can pull it off?

Keywords: 1970s, airport, ambulance, assault, bank, bank-heist, bank-vault, based-on-true-story, basement, beach
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: The true story of a heist gone wrong... in all the right ways.

Quotes:

Dave Shilling: Be lucky!

[first lines]::Eddie Burton: [while drilling a mileage meter back] Another Terry Leather low mileage here.

Terry Leather: So, you're getting married tomorrow Ingrid?::Ingrid Burton: I hope so.::Terry Leather: Go on, get off home, go make yourself more beautiful than you already are... if that's possible.

Michael X: You know, I always wanted to meet a white man by the name of Brown. You know what this is?::[Michael X puts a collar around Brown's neck]::Michael X: It's a slave collar, and the white man made my mothers and fathers wear this to bend them to his will. Can I bend you to my will, Mr. Brown?

Martine Love: I know you, Terry. And I know your mates. You've always been looking for the big score. The one that makes sense of everything. I have it for you.::Terry Leather: What?::Martine Love: A bank.::Terry Leather: A bank, as in rob? How would you know about a bank?::Martine Love: I've been seeing this guy, runs his own business - security systems. Next month they're installing new alarms in a bank in Marylebone. Seems like the trains have been setting off the tremble alarms in the vault, and so they've had to turn them off. So for a week or so, they won't have any.::Terry Leather: Now why would he tell you all this?::Martine Love: We were having a laugh about it. Imagine if half the villains in London knew about this, he said. And I thought, I know half the villains in London. I grew up with some of them.

Kevin Swain: We're not bank robbers.::Terry Leather: Maybe that's why we could get away with it.::Dave Shilling: It's a bit daunting, isn't it?::Terry Leather: You know what scares me more? Living and dying with nothing to show for it. You know how old Mozart was when he composed his first minuet?::Dave Shilling: No.::Terry Leather: Five. Five! A fucking minuet!::Kevin Swain: And how would you know that fact, Terry?::Terry Leather: Because it's tattooed on that stripper's arse, Kevin. What the fuck's it matter how I know? It's a fact and you're missing the point, Kev. What I'm trying to say is, we stop fucking about and stop picking the shit from under our fingernails.

Gale Benson: Hakim, tell us more about your book.::Hakim Jamal: It's about being born black in America. Can any of you imagine what it's like to be a black man in this world? Can any of you white women imagine what it would be like to bring a black baby into this world?

Kevin Swain: So what are these films you're in?::Dave Shilling: Ah, forget about it.::Kevin Swain: Go on.::Dave Shilling: Technically, it's what you call pornography.

Young Soldier: [while being fitted for a jacket] A bit tight under the arms, don't you think?::Guy Singer: Traditional fit, sir. One can't raise one's hands above one's head. It tends to inhibit any impulsive acts of surrender.

Wendy Leather: So, come on then, what don't I know? Romantic dinner on Monday night?::Terry Leather: Look honey, I'm going to be working some strange hours over the next week or two, so don't ask me what I'm doing because I don't want to lie to you.

Lo ammazzò come un cane... ma lui rideva ancora (1972)

Actors: Benito Pacifico (actor), Giovanni Petti (actor), Michael Forest (actor), Antonio Molino Rojo (actor), Remo Capitani (actor), Daniele Patucchi (composer), Irio Fantini (actor), Angelo Pannacciò (editor), Angelo Pannacciò (writer), Angelo Pannacciò (director), Luciano Conti (actor), Thomas Rudy (actor), Franco Borelli (actor), Steven Tedd (actor), Michele Branca (actor),

Genres: Western,