David Clarke
Language
English
Description
Steve McQueen plays a football hero who fatefully ends up with career criminals planning a bank robbery. No single gang member trusts the other, which proves fatal when the heist goes bad! Actual St. Louis police officers play themselves in the same respective roles of the true story.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An over-the-hill boxer thinks he can still win a bout, despite doubts from his wife and his manager. He goes into his next fight determined to beat his opponent, not realizing his manager has taken money for a 'dive' from a tough gambler. Heightening the tension, the film takes place over the course of 72 minutes, its approximate running time.
Publisher
Westlake Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This dramatic recreation of a failed bank heist was filmed in the original locations where the true-life event occurred, and was cast with the actual police men, bank customers and area residents who were involved in the affair, giving the production an intense and gritty realism. An expelled college football hero joins a hurriedly formed gang of ex-convicts planning a bank robbery, but personal jealousies and frustrations among the four men doom...