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Director
  
Francis Megahy

Budget
  
364,000 GBP

Country
  
United Kingdom

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Action, Crime, Drama

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Sewers of Gold movie poster
Release date
  
1979

Writer
  
Bernie Cooper, Francis Megahy, Albert Spaggiari (character)

Genres
  
Thriller, Crime film, Docudrama

Cast
  
Ian McShane
(The Brain (Bert)),
Warren Clarke
(Jean),
Christopher Malcolm
(Serge)

Similar movies
  
Related Francis Megahy movies

Tagline
  
An incredible, intriguing and true story!

A criminal genius (Ian McShane) masterminds the theft of $15 million from a bank on the French Riviera.

Contents

Sewers of Gold movie scenes Dorothy Stratten posing with the 1979 Firebird Trans Am wide body custom built by none other than the legendary George Barris and that starred in the Steve

Sewers of Gold was a 1979 British film starring Ian McShane and Warren Clarke. It is also known as Dirty Money and The Great Riviera Bank Robbery.

A group of fascists plan to finance their work by pulling off a bank robbery

Plot

Sewers of Gold movie scenes From the moment in the opening scene in which he emerges from a sewer manhole in the street dressed immaculately in a dinner jacket and gets into a Rolls

Bert (McShane) and Jean (Clarke) are members of a right-wing nationalist organisation closely connected to the Organisation de larmee secrete. Both are ex-military, and now find themselves on the wrong side of the law in Nice, France. Needing to raise cash to buy arms, Bert, an ex-paratrooper known as The Brain, devises a plan to dig their way into a bank vault.

Needing criminal expertise, they persuade some local French gangsters to join them, in return for a cut of the haul. The gangsters interest is purely mercenary while Bert is at pains to point out that his interest is political. After several nights spent digging through a wall in a sewer, they break their way into the deposit boxes, and try to make their getaway without being caught.

Background

The raid in the film was based on an actual bank robbery that was claimed to be the largest bank robbery in history at the time. The film marked the second collaboration between Ian McShane and director Francis Megahy after the 1971 film Freelance.

This film also starred Stephen Greif and Christopher Malcolm.

Media releases

Sewers of Gold was released on Region Two DVD in 2007.

References

Sewers of Gold Wikipedia
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