Tomorrow morning, 26 Jan, TCM is running ARMORED CAR ROBBERY.
Some of you might have already seen this one a few weeks ago
when James Ellroy was the guest programmer for one evening on
TCM.
It was directed by Richard Fleischer, co-written by Earl
Felton, and stars Charles McGraw as a hard-nosed LA cop. The
same director-writer-star combo would be responsible for the
far better-known cop noir, THE NARROW MARGIN, with McGraw as,
essentially, the same character, only this time guarding a
witness on a train from Chicago to LA, rather than hunting
down an armed robber.
William Talman, best-known as Hamilton Burger on the old
PERRY MASON show, is the lead bad guy, a character who
reminds me an awful lot of Stark's Parker. He also rather
resembles Sterling Hayden, who played a similar role in THE
KILLING and THE ASPHALT JUNGLE. In fact, given certain shots
and sequences in ARMORED CAR ROBBERY, it wouldn't surprise me
to learn that Kubrick was familiar with this film.
JIM DOHERTY
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