Category Archives: Heist films

The Silent Partner

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Andrew Nette| 9 Comments

Earlier this year I did a series of posts on my love of heist films, what my favourite ones are, and how they differ from caper films. The number one rule of a solid heist film is the heist always, … Continue reading →

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Blood Money and other Australian crime films you’ve probably never heard of

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Andrew Nette| 9 Comments

If you haven’t heard of the 1980 Australian film Bloody Money, don’t worry, you’d be in good company. Clocking in at just over 62 minutes, it’s an unpolished little gem of a heist film and almost completely unavailable. John Flaus … Continue reading →

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Posted in Australian crime film, Bryan Brown, Heist films, Peter Corris

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Violent Saturday

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Andrew Nette| 1 Comment

Over the weekend I managed to catch a film I’d been keen to see for a while, Richard Fleischer’s Violent Saturday. Made in 1955, it focuses on a bank robbery in small southern US town. It’s not hard to see … Continue reading →

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Posted in 70s American crime films, Crime film, Ernest Borgnine, Film Noir, Heist films, Lee Marvin, Victor Mature

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Sydney Lumet: the prince of the New York

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Andrew Nette| 2 Comments

Anyone who has an interest in cinema from the fifties, sixties and seventies will by now be well and truly used to logging onto the Internet or picking up the newspaper, to discover that one of their favourite actors or … Continue reading →

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Posted in 70s American crime films, 80s American crime films, Charles Durning, Crime film, Heist films, Sydney Lumet

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Parker and the art of hard-boiled crime writing

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Andrew Nette| 4 Comments

December 31 2010 marks the second anniversary of the death at age 75 of one of the masters of hard-boiled crime writing, Donald Westlake. I’ve found myself thinking a lot about Westlake lately and his best known creation, the professional criminal … Continue reading →

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Posted in 70s American crime films, Crime fiction, Donald Westlake aka Richard Stark, Garry Disher, Heist films, Jim Brown, Lee Marvin, Noir fiction, Parker

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