Re Mark Blumethal's remark below:
"It [the Brinks robbery] openly inspired at least one movie,
which starred Tony Curtis . . ."
The movie was called SIX BRIDGES TO CROSS. It was scripted by
Sidney Boehm who won an Edgar for THE BIG HEAT. It was based
on a novel entitled ANATOMY OF A CRIME by Joseph Dineen,
which, in turn, Dineen had expanded from a short story
entitled "They Stole
(whatever the hell the amount of money they stole was)
. . . And Got Away With It." Dineen made no bones about the
fact that he was basing his plot on the
(still unsolved at that time) Brinks heist. One of the actors
who played Ellery Queen on TV (I can't remember his name, but
someone else probably will) played the Boston cop on Tony's
trail.
Two other films based on the crime are BRINKS - THE GREAT
ROBBERY, a 1976 Quinn Martin-produced TV-movie with Leslie
Nielsen doing his familiar straight cop routine (years before
he'd start spoofing it in POLICE SQUAD!) as an FBI agent, and
Cliff Gorman and Darren McGavin as to of the robbery gang,
and THE BRINKS JOB, starring Peter Falk and directed by
William (THE FRENCH CONNECTION) Friedkin.
JIM DOHERTY
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