CANADA: Masterminds TV - The Irish Mob TV - The Score 2001 - Trailer Park Boys TV - Foolproof 2003 -
A phantom bandit robbed banks across the nation using techniques never seen before and made himself millions. Masterminds e39: The Phantom Bandit
In the mid-1980s Canada was hit with dramatic rise in bank robberies. ibid.
Gilber Galvan: An American fugitive who robbed over 50 Canadian banks and made himself millions. ibid.
In the 1970s three Canadian criminals pulled off a string of daring bank robberies from Montreal to Miami … in more than 140 bank robberies. But in September 1980 time ran out for the Stopwatch gang. The Irish Mob s1e4, 2016
It’s in the Montreal Customs House … Four million balls; how many times have I got to tell you. The Score 2001 starring Marlon Brando & Robert de Niro & Edward Norton & Angela Bassett & Gary Palmer & Paul Soles & Jamie Harrold & Serge Houde & Martin Drainville et al, director Frank Oz, Brando to de Niro
I’m not going to lie to you – can I borrow your car to do a truck heist? Trailer Park Boys s10e5: If You Don’t Believe It, It’s Not Real, Ricky to Lucy
I know what I’m doing. I’ve watched movies like Casino, or Goodfellas, a bunch of Robert De Niro films – Heat – you know, they do a big job and then they sit on the money for a little while. And that’s the key because you start flashing money around right out of the gate, you’re going to go back to jail. Trailer Park Boys: Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys, Julian, 2008
Pretty good? It’s foolproof. Foolproof 2003 starring Ryan Reynolds & David Suchet & Kristin Booth & David Hewlett & James Allodi & Joris Jarsky & Sean Sullivan & Tara Slone & Soo Garay & William House & Wai Choy et al, director William Phillips, Helen
Leo the Touch I presume? ibid. rozzer
CARIBBEAN: After the Sunset 2004 -
The world is divided up between people who like to watch the sunset and those who don’t. After the Sunset 2004 starring Pierce Brosnan & Woody Harrelson & Don Cheadle & Salma Hayek & Naomie Harris & Chris Penn & Mykelti Williamson & Obba Babatunde & Russell Hornsby & Rex Linn et al, director Brett Ratner, Harrelson to Brosnan
FRANCE: Heists TV - Art of the Heist TV - Masterminds TV - Le Deuxieme Souffle 1966 - The French Connection: Inside the New Mafias TV - Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes 1955 - Sewers of Gold 1979 - Ocean’s 12 2004 - Le Cercle Rouge 1970 -
The Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world. And at £2.5 billion it’s also the most famous. Heists s1e5: Mona Lisa, Channel 5 2017
Just over a hundred years ago the Mona Lisa was snatched from the world’s most famous museum. The crime sent shock waves around the world and baffled the world’s greatest living detective. ibid.
The greatest art heist ever: August 22nd 1911. ibid.
In December 1913 a man arrived with a trunk in Florence after a sixteen-hour train journey from Paris. He checked into a run-down hotel, and the next day he was visited by two of Italy’s greatest experts in art. The man had something to give them: the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. The Mona Lisa had been taken from the Louvre two years earlier in one of the coolest and most brazen art robberies ever. Art of the Heist s2e3: The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa
It had simply just vanished ... A humble Italian carpenter had outwitted the whole of the French art establishment ... It was more than twenty-four hours before anyone even realised the Mona Lisa was missing. ibid.
Luck and police incompetence favoured [Vincenzo] Peruggia. ibid.
Two names came up, names familiar in the world of art and letters. One was a poet. The other a young Spanish artist who was already showing promise: Pablo Picasso. ibid.
Peruggia treated the Mona Lisa with respect. ibid.
He told the court his motive for the theft was national pride. ibid.
For a long time he had slept with the Mona Lisa by his bed. ibid.
Its fascination has always been her expression: the Mona Lisa smile. ibid.
The Louvre was shut indefinitely. But still had to face the public outcry. ibid.
The authorities clung to the faint hope that the theft was a publicity stunt. There were plenty of other theories. ibid.
A thumbprint from the thief. Finger-printing was a relatively new science. ibid.