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Armnored Car Robbery (1950)

• Director
  • Richard Fleischer
• Writers
  • Earl Felton(screenplay)
  • Gerald Drayson Adams(screenplay)
  • Robert Angus(suggested by a story by)
• Stars
  • Charles McGraw
  • Adele Jergens
  • William Talman

  Some auteur critics feel that director Richard O. Fleischer did his best work while laboring in the "B" mills of RKO Radio. Fleischer's minimalist noir exercise Armored Car Robbery stars William Talman as the chief crook and Charles McGraw as the detective dogging his trail. A shade smarter than his gang underlings, Talman manages to elude capture, and even travels freely about in the company of his flashy lady friend Adele Jergens. But McGraw's persistence eventually pays off. Don McGuire, later a prolific TV producer/director, provides a welcome touch of comic relief as McGraw's rookie-cop assistant. A powerful (and slightly gruesome) climax caps this low-budget gem.