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| Title: ROBBERY Director: Peter Yates Star: Stanley Baker Year: 1967 Rating: ****1/2 |
Best known as the obscure crime film that gave English director Peter Yates his big game-changing opportunity to make BULLITT stateside, after Steve McQueen had witnessed the rudimentary car chase sequence from ROBBERY, overall a sparse, deliberately cold/heartless British Neo-Noir Heist-Thriller...
And it's not just this initial chase that Yates carried over to the McQueen classic, but also the strategically metronomic moments leading up...
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| James Booth in ROBBERY |
Starring square-jawed Stanley Baker (who specialized
in British Noir since the 1950's from BEAUTIFUL STRANGER to HELL DRIVERS to HELL IS A CITY), yet mainly because he's in
charge ("I'm paying for nerve, not nerves") — ROBBERY actually makes pretty much equal use of all male leads...
Particularly James Booth, going beyond the token cop role in what begins as his own first-act picture, subtly trailing driver Clinton Greyn before William Marlowe as Baker's strong-silent second with Barry Forster his strong-silent third while Frank Finlay, as a meek yet dishonest banker too-easily broken out of prison, is the most vulnerable and sympathetic...
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| Stanley Baker in ROBBERY |
Yet there's very little sympathy for these devils, whose only flaw is how long and tediously methodical it takes for the actual train heist to go down... the director not always considering an audience but, like real life crimes, Yates showcases the slowburn reality like being right there, for better or worse since it's not always exciting, and that's the point...
Just don't let the casting of beautiful poster-perfect British ingenue Joanne Pettet fool you — this particular ROBBERY cares neither about romance or the human condition.
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| Clinton Greyn, Stanley Baker, William Marlowe & Barry Foster in ROBBERY |
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| Rachel Herbert in ROBBERY |
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| ROBBERY with William Marlowe |
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ROBBERY with Terence Plummer
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| James Booth in ROBBERY |
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| James Booth in ROBBERY |
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| Joanna Pettet in ROBBERY |
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Stanley Baker in ROBBERY with Barry Foster
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| ROBBERY with William Marlowe |
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Barry Foster in ROBBERY and George Sewell
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| James Booth in ROBBERY |
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Stanley Baker in ROBBERY with Frank Finlay
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| Helicopter from ROBBERY |
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| Blu RAY FOR ROBBERY |
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| Stanley Baker in ROBBERY |
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| Stanley Baker in ROBBERY facing Frank Finley |
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| Rachel Herbert lined-up for ROBBERY |
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| Rachel Herbert in ROBBERY |
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| Rachel Herbert slaps Clinton Greyn in ROBBERY |
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| Joanna Pettet in ROBBERY |
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| Joanna Pettet in ROBBERY |
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| Stanley Baker in ROBBERY |
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Stanley Baker in ROBBERY with Glynn Edwards
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Stanley Baker in ROBBERY with Frank Finlay
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| Stanley Baker in ROBBERY |
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Stanley Baker in ROBBERY with Barry Stanton
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| Barry Foster in ROBBERY |
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| Barry Foster in ROBBERY |
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| Stanley Baker in ROBBERY with William Marlowe |
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| From Peter Yates' ROBBERY |
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| Stanley Baker in ROBBERY |
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| Stanley Baker in ROBBERY |
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| James Booth in ROBBERY |
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Stanley Baker in ROBBERY with William Marlowe
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| James Booth in ROBBERY |
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| Joanna Pettet and James Booth in ROBBERY |
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| William Marlowe in ROBBERY |
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| William Marlowe in ROBBERY |
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| William Marlowe in ROBBERY |
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| From ROBBERY |
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| William Marlowe and Barry Foster in ROBBERY |
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| Stanley Baker in ROBBERY |
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| Joanna Pettet Stanley Baker in ROBBERY |
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| Stanley Baker in ROBBERY |
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| Stanley Baker in ROBBERY |
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| Stanley Baker in ROBBERY |
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Stanley Baker and Barry Foster in ROBBERY
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| From Peter Yates's ROBBERY |
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| Clinton Greyn in ROBBERY |
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