The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)

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The Day They Robbed the Bank of England is a tight little heist movie set in 1901 with a good moral twist on the genre, as the would-be thieves are working towards Ireland's liberation and have varying loyalties to the cause and to their own self-interest. Much of the film is spent on the recon part of the crime - figuring out how to breach the impregnable Bank of England - and that's handled like a spy thriller, with Peter O'Toole as the head of security whose weaknesses can be exploited, although he just may be able to foil Aldo Ray's plan. Where I find the film less that "tight and little" is the love interest subplot that almost motivates the action here and there, really doesn't when you think about it. I found these scenes to be a distraction, where politics and human nature were more than enough to push the story along, create divides, etc. But on the whole, it's not MUCH of a distraction. 5 years 5 months ago