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The bank job - Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Roger Donaldson

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Movie propaganda

The true story of a heist gone wrong... in all the right ways.

Inspired by the infamous 1971 robbery that took place at the Lloyd's Bank in Marylebone London, the highly-charged heist thriller tautly interweaves high-level corruption, murder and sexual scandal in 1970s England. A car dealer with a dodgy past and new family, Terry (Jason Statham) has always avoided major-league scams. But when Martine (Saffron Burrows), a beautiful model from his old neighbourhood, offers him a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street, Terry recognizes the opportunity of a lifetime. Martine targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewellery. But Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal that spans London's criminal underworld, the highest echelons of the British government, and the Royal Family itself... the true story of a heist gone wrong... in all the right ways.

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film crime true UK bank robbery England Seventies criminal safe deposit box secrets betrayal Royal blackmail

Persons of interest

Jason Statham .... Terry Leather
Saffron Burrows .... Martine Love
Stephen Campbell Moore .... Kevin Swain
Daniel Mays .... Dave Shilling
James Faulkner .... Guy Singer
Alki David .... Bambas
Michael Jibson .... Eddie Burton
Georgia Taylor .... Ingrid Burton
Richard Lintern .... Tim Everett
Peter Bowles .... Miles Urquhart
Alistair Petrie .... Philip Lisle
Hattie Morahan .... Gale Benson
Julian Lewis Jones .... Snow
Andrew Brooke .... Quinn
Rupert Frazer .... Lord Drysdale
Chris Owens .... Mountbatten
Keeley Hawes .... Wendy Leather
Taelor Samways .... Catherine Leather
Kasey Baterip .... Julie Leather
Don Gallagher .... Gerald Pyke
Craig Fairbrass .... Nick Barton
Gerard Horan .... Roy Given
Robert Whitelock .... Alfie Hook
David Suchet .... Lew Vogel
Peter De Jersey .... Michael X
Johann Myers .... Stanley 'The Knife' Abbot
Colin Salmon .... Hakim Jamal
Sharon Maughan .... Sonia Bern
Les Kenny-Green .... Pinky
James Kenna .... Perky
Angus Wright .... Eric Addey
Mark Phoenix .... Mr Brown
Rupert Vansittart .... Sir Leonard Plugge
Alan Swoffer .... John Lennon
Dick Clement .... Screenwriter
Ian La Frenais .... Screenwriter
Roger Donaldson .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

Melbourne International Film Festival 2008: Screening

Studios and distributors:

Paramount Pictures

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

The bank job is the epitome of all those British crime thrillers that came out of the Sixties and Seventies like Get Carter and The Italian Job: East End gangsters, crooked coppers, impossible odds, dodgy blokes and bits of skirt in need of a good rodgering. The only difference is that this film is true and if you know your Royals then you'll know just who the Royal bit of skirt getting a good rodgering is. Not that I would ever engage in gossip.

Jason Statham plays his standard cocky British gangster with Saffron Burrows supplying a sexy bit of non-Royal skirt. The story is well-plotted but this kind of movie is such a standard of the industry that it feels generic. If you're hanging out for a few British accents and too much corduroy then you'll love The bank job, otherwise you can wait until it comes out on DVD.

The crime, true, UK movie The bank job is directed by Roger Donaldson and stars Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore.