[Mappin &] Webb? You’re nuts. Why not the Bank of France? Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes 1955 starring Jean Servais & Carl Mohner & Jules Dassin & Marcel Lupovici & Robert Hossein & Pierre Grasset & Marie Sabouret & Dominique Maurin et al, director Jules Dassin, Tony to Jo & Mario
The job interests me after all. ibid. Tony to Jo
Get caught with a rod and it’s the slammer for life. ibid. Tony to Jo & Mario
The rocks in the window are chicken feed. We gotta go for the real thing. The jackpot. The safe! ibid.
Dramatic news of the man responsible for the world’s biggest bank robbery in Nice last year when thieves got away with a sum believed by police to be as much as $25 million. Apparently, while the criminal was being questioned in a Nice courtroom building this morning, he jumped from a second floor window and escaped. Sewers of Gold aka The Great Riviera Bank Robbery aka Dirty Money 1979 starring Ian McShane & Warren Clarke & Stephen Greif & Christopher Malcolm & Nigel Humphreys & Eric Mason & Matthew Long & Alain Guano & Barry Lowe & Jonathan Elsom & Arnold Diamond et al, director Francis Megahy
In time the Left will destroy itself by internal dissent. ibid. fascist council
Do you think the Reds are satisfied with just what they got, just what they’ve got and where they are? They’re threatening to overrun us now. I am one of the people that is going to stamp out that threat. We’ll smash them once and for all. ibid.
Hello, Tess. Where is he, Tess? Where is Mr Diaz? I want it back, Tess. I want it all back. I want my money back. Ocean’s 12 2004 starring George Clooney & Brad Pitt & Catherine Zeta-Jones & Matt Damon & Andy Garcia & Bernie Mac & Elliott Gould & Casey Affleck & Scott Caan & Eddie Jemison & Don Cheadle & Julia Roberts & Shaobo Qin & Robbie Coltrane & Bruce Willis & Elliott Gould & Eddie Izzard & Albert Finney et al, director Steven Soderbergh
He didn’t find us on his own. Somebody helped him. ibid. Rusty Ryan
I’ve known you five years: you are the only man for this job. Classic. Easy. No risk. If done right. Le Cercle Rouge 1970 starring Alain Delon & Andre Bourvil & Gian Maria Volonte & Yves Montand & Paul Crauchet & Paul Amiot & Pierre Collet & Andre Ekyan & Jean-Pierre Posier & Francois Perier et al, director Jean-Pierre Melville, screw to Corey
Only one fence can handle this kind of merchandise. He has to agree first. ibid. Corey
Sensational Place Vendme Heist: Daring burglars make off with 20 million in jewels. ibid. newspaper headline
GERMANY: Stefan Aust - The Baader Meinhof Complex 2005 - Masterminds TV - 54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis TV - Adam Curtis TV - The Week online - Gladbeck: The Hostage Crisis 2022
The Baader-Meinhof Gang drew a measure of support that violent leftists in the United States, like the Weather Underground, never enjoyed. A poll at the time showed that a quarter of West Germans under forty felt sympathy for the gang and one-tenth said they would hide a gang member from the police. Prominent intellectuals spoke up for the gang’s righteousness (as) Germany even into the 1970s was still a guilt-ridden society. When the gang started robbing banks, newscasts compared its members to Bonnie and Clyde. (Andreas) Baader, a charismatic, spoiled psychopath, indulged in the imagery, telling people that his favourite movies were Bonnie and Clyde, which had recently come out, and The Battle of Algiers. The pop poster of Che Guevara hung on his wall, (while) he paid a designer to make a Red Army Faction logo, a drawing of a machine gun against a red star. Stefan Aust, author Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Today, three banks in West Berlin were robbed within ten minutes. The Baader Meinhof Complex 2005 [Der Baader Meinhof Komplex] starring Moritz Bleibtreu & Martina Gedeck & Johanna Wokalek & Nadja Uhl & Simon Licht & Alexandra Maria Lara & Susanne Bormann & Bruno Ganz et al, director Uli Edel, news
An astonishing crime riveted an entire country. He [Kallet Alvarazi] waged a war of nerves with the police. His gang scored millions in cash and jewellery. Masterminds e47: The Berlin Heist, History 2005
Sixteen people are being held hostage itself by four masked men. ibid.
Hundreds of safe deposit boxes are housed in a basement vault. ibid.
He [Kallet] is going to build a tunnel. ibid.
Shall we cordon off the area? 54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis I, rozzer in jam-jar, opening scene, BBC 2018
Good morning, minister. We’ve just received a telex from Gladbeck. Bank robbery with hostages. ibid. civil servant
Let’s shoot our way through the front. ibid. rozzer
We’re talking about people’s lives! ibid. chief rozzer
There’s no work for people like me, and no morality or that kind of shit. I want to get ahead. I want to live. 54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis II, gangsta to press
We only have the right ammunition for a shot to the head. ibid. sniper’s coordinating rozzer
I like to see brains splattered all over the place. ibid. other gangsta
Death is better than life with no money. ibid. gangsta
The members of the Red Army Faction were now planting bombs and robbing banks all across West Germany. They announced that they had now become Maoists, followers of Mao Zedong, and they were going to awaken the popular masses. The government were desperate to catch them. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head II: Shooting and Fucking are the Same Thing, BBCiplayer 2021
A violent, leftist collective consisting of some 60 people with roots in the revolutionary student movement that swept Europe and the US in 1967-8. Its legacy of self-styled ‘armed resistance’ – assassinations, kidnaps and bombings of the German establishment – has been argued over ever since. The Red Army Faction (RAF), as it formally called itself, was founded in 1970 by Andreas Baader, his girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin (pictured) and Ulrike Meinhof, a left-wing journalist. It started by burning down department stores, then moved on to full-scale terrorism. In ever more brutal attacks, the group killed a total of 34 people, mainly bankers, government officials, their chauffeurs and bodyguards. Thirteen gang members also died. Baader, Meinhof and Ensslin, were arrested in 1972 and prosecuted in 1975. Meinhof killed herself during the gang’s three-year, chaotic trial. The Week online article, The Baader Meinhof Gang
The footage you are about to see was shot in August 1988. For 54 hours, the West German TV audience was gripped by an unfolding hostage situation. Gladbeck: The Hostage Crisis, Netflix 2022
16th August 1988: In Gladbeck-Rentfort, two masked men have committed a robbery … They’ve taken a woman and the bank manager hostage … ibid. news clips