After it’s all over and we’re safe it’ll be just you and me, you and me, the way it should have been all along from the start. Criss Cross 1949 starring Burt Lancaster & Yvonne de Carlo & Dan Duryea & Stephen McNally & Esy Morales & Tom Pedi & Percy Helton & Alan Napier & Griff Barnett & Meg Randall & Richard Long et al, director Robert Siodmak, her to him opening scene
Now the first thing I want to get off my chest – my name isn’t Bailey, it’s Markham. Out of the Past aka Build My Gallows High 1947 starring Robert Mitchum & Kirk Douglas & Jane Greer & Rhonda Fleming & Richard Webb & Steve Brodie & Virginia Huston et al, director Jacques Tourneur, him to her
And then I saw her. Coming out of the Sun. ibid.
Baby, I don’t care. ibid. Markham to Kathie
I don’t kick people out of their houses like you people at the bank do. Chinatown 1974 starring Faye Dunaway & Jack Nicholson & John Huston & Perry Lopez & Roman Polanski & John Hillerman & Darrell Zwerling & Diane Ladd & Roy Jenson & Richard Bakalyan et al, director Roman Polanski, detective to bankster in barber’ chair
An unassuming building in downtown Los Angeles filled with cash. Six friends decided they want what’s inside. Can these amateur thieves become a professional crew and hit the jackpot? Greatest Heists with Pierce Brosnan s1e7: The Dunbar Armored Depot, History 2023
It’s the place that supplies banks with their cash. ibid.
$18.9 in $20 nominations. ibid.
Missing security tapes and speed of the heist point to an inside job. ibid.
28th February 1997: A breathtaking act of violence on the streets of Los Angeles plays live on national television. This is no cops and robbers movie. It’s real. Two armed men have hit a North Hollywood bank and seem to be cornered by police. But these two haven’t just turned up to rob a bank. Dressed like post-apocalyptic warriors, they take on the police with calculated savagery, blasting them with vastly superior firepower. Zero Hour s3e4: North Hollywood Shootout
The body armour weighs less than the chips on their shoulders. ibid.
FLORIDA & MIAMI: Robberies of the Century TV - Masterminds TV - Heist TV - Parker 2013 -
Loomis Fargo & Co: Philip Johnson chose to do something else: after years of planning he turned on his employer and stole more than $18 million. It was the largest cash robbery in American history. Robberies of the Century, 2001
It was a robbery he planned for years. He stole $19 million and vanished without a trace. He pulled off the largest cash heist in American history. Masterminds s2e14: Jacksonville Heist, History 2004
After four years of planning Johnson is ready to strike. He picks his date: Easter weekend 1997. Johnson completes his route and returns to Loomis Fargo at 6 p.m. ibid.
In the mid-1990s Miami, Florida, was hit with an unprecedented crime wave … ‘The FBI started to see a bunch of extremely high-end jewellery heists of wholesale jewellery stores.’ Masterminds e55: It Takes a Thief, History 2006
‘He became an expert in vaults and safes.’ ibid.
Learning his crew has turned on him, [Paul] Mathieson abandons them completely and starts going it alone. ibid.
We don’t steal from people who can’t afford it. We don’t hurt people who don’t deserve it. Parker 2013 starring Jason Statham & Jennifer Lopez & Michael Chiklis & Wendell Pierce & Clifton Collins & Bobby Cannavale & Patti LuPone & Carlos Carrasco & Micah Hauptman & Emma Booth & Nick Nolte et al, director Taylor Hackford
Sorry about the leg, Jackson. You sit tight for five minutes and I’ll call you an ambulance. ibid.
It’s the principle … Terms on both sides have to be honoured. ibid.
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One more job then I’m done. Baby Driver 2017 starring Ansel Elgort & Kevin Spacey & Lily James & Jon Hamm & Eliza Gonzalez & Jamie Foxx & Jon Bernthal & Flea & Lanny Joon & C J Jones & Sky Ferreira et al, director Edgar Wright, Baby
So I’m of a thinking that you are my lucky charm and I’m not doing this job without you. ibid. Doc
If you’re Wall Street, you’re a bigger fucking crook than I could ever be. ibid. Bats
ILLINOIS & CHICAGO: Thief 1981 - Masterminds TV - Baby Face Nelson 1957 - The St Valentine’s Day Massacre
I wear a hundred and fifty dollar slacks, I wear silk shirts, I wear eight hundred dollar suits, I wear a gold watch, I wear a D flawless three-carat ring, I change cars like others guys change their fucking shoes, I’m a thief. Thief 1981 starring James Caan & Tuesday Weld & Willie Nelson & James Belushi & Robert Prosky & Tom Signorelli & Dennis Farina & Nick Nickeas & W R Bill Brown & William Petersen, director Michael Mann, him to her
A mastermind steals millions from an impregnable vault without leaving a trace. Meet America’s most amazing bank burglar. Masterminds s1e9: The Perfect Score, History 2003
The First National Bank of Barrington ... Employees quickly discovered that seventy-four safe-deposit boxes had been emptied. The FBI determined $1.1 million in jewellery and cash were missing. ibid.
This criminal masterpiece was the work of local hairdresser William Smarto. ibid.
Locked in the vault Smarto waits an hour to ensure everyone has left the bank. ibid.
After watching the attendant leave he emerges disguised as a workman. ibid.
William Smarto is found guilty and sentenced to twenty years. Due to ill health his brother is never brought to trial. ibid.
Because of William Smarto the architecture of bank vaults has changed for ever. No longer are there false ceilings and all-corner dead spaces have been eliminated. ibid.
1933: This is a re-creation of an era: an era of jazz, jalopies, prohibition, and trigger-happy punks. Baby Face Nelson 1957 starring Mickey Rooney & Carolyn Jones & Cedric Hardwicke & Leo Gordon & John Hoyt & Jack Elam & Anthony Caruso & Ted de Corsia et al, director Don Siegel
I got a big job for you, little man. ibid. gangsta to Nelson
You’re lucky it was only a .22 – they leave a nice clean small hole. ibid. doctor to Nelson
You’re the number one man, John. ibid. Nelson
That’s the trouble with this country. Its morals are all shot. I mean, look at the young people. Girls throwing cigarettes right out into the street, and rocking in the backseat of a car, and wearing skirts so short you can see everything they’ve got. The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre 1967 starring George Seagal & Jason Robards & Ralph Meeker & Jack Nicholson & Jean Hale & Jan Merlin & Clint Ritchie & David Canary & Harold J Stone et al, director Roger Corman, Capone
KANSAS: Kansas City Confidential 1952 - Mad Money 2008 - Masterminds TV - In Cold Blood 1967 -
You’re a three-time loser, Tony. Kansas City Confidential 1952 starring John Payne & Coleen Gray & Lee van Cleef & Jack Elam & Preston Foster & Neville Brand & Dona Drake & Mario Siletti & Carleton Younget al, director Phil Karlson, bloke in mask
We can’t rat on each other because we’ve never seen each other without the masks. ibid.
I want to know who framed me. ibid. bloke
I have this theory crime is contagious. Mad Money 2008 starring Diane Keaton & Queen Latifah & Katie Holmes & Ted Danson & Roger Cross & Adam Rothenberg & Stephen Root & J C MacKenzie & Christopher McDonald 7 Finesse Mitchell & Bryan Massey et al, director Callie Khouri, Keaton
A drugs test? What kind of drugs would I have to take? ibid. Keaton on dog n bone
One gang pulls off a brazen jewel heist: millions of dollars in diamonds ripped off in broad daylight. Masterminds s2e5: Kansas City Diamond Heist, History 2004
Kansas City’s greatest jewel-thief outwitted police for years. ibid.
A vehicle pulled up to the front doors of Tivol. Three masked men got out and stormed the jewellery store. The attack moved at blazing speed. The staff were caught completely off guard ... This was a highly coordinated hit. ibid.
Police suspected that an expert gang of jewel thieves had swept through town. They had no idea they’d been outwitted by a local kid on his first swing in the big league. ibid.
Burnett’s other criminal activity had already landed him in custody ... Burnett was going down but he wasn’t going down alone. He could finally get his revenge on the fences who had double-crossed him. ibid.
He put me on to something we can bring off beautiful. A synch. The perfect score. It’s a sure thing. Am depending on you. Love Dick. In Cold Blood 1967 starring Robert Blake & Scott Wilson & John Forsythe & Paul Stewart & Gerald S O’Loughlin & Jeff Corey & John Gallaudet & James Flavin & Charles McGraw & Jim Lantz & Will Geer & John McLiam et al, director Richard Brooks, Perry reads letter