Bank Shot
5.4 /10 1 Votes
Director Gower Champion Initial DVD release February 18, 2003 Duration Language English | 5.4/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Crime Music director John Morris Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date July 31, 1974 Based on The Bank Shot
by Donald E. Westlake Writer Wendell Mayes, Donald E. Westlake (novel) Cast George C. Scott (Walter Upjohn Ballentine), Joanna Cassidy (Eleonora), Sorrell Booke (Al G. Karp)Similar movies Donald E Westlake wrote the story for Bank Shot and The Hot Rock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bank Shot is a 1974 film directed by Gower Champion and written by Wendell Mayes. It was loosely based upon Donald E. Westlake's novel of the same name, which was the second book of his Dortmunder series. The film stars George C. Scott, Joanna Cassidy, Sorrell Booke, and G. Wood.
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Plot
A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank, and rob it in a safer location?
Cast
Reception
Vincent Canby of The New York Times was mildly amused: "It's not a great movie. It's not worth taking a taxi to see. Yet there are many less invigorating ways to waste one's time. ... The intensity of Scott's performance is highly comic. His Walter Ballantine has the discipline, self-assurance and narrow vision of the true fanatic. So, too, do most of the other characters in the film... Gower Champion, who has had more success as a Broadway director (Hello, Dolly) than as a maker of films (My Six Loves), seems to have had a great deal of fun with first-rate actors doing Bank Shot — grace of a work by someone who knows exactly what he's doing."
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