The Great Bank Robbery (1969)
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
- Date of release
- 1969-06-24
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (12)
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Western, Comedy
- Director
- Hy Averback
Casting
- Zero Mostel — Rev. Pious Blue
- Kim Novak — Sister Lyda Kebanov (forger)
- Clint Walker — Ranger Ben Quick
- Claude Akins — Slade
- Akim Tamiroff — Papa (Juan's father)
- Larry Storch — Juan
- John Anderson — Mayor Kincaid
- Sam Jaffe — Brother Lilac Bailey (art forger)
- Mako — Secret Agent Fong
- Elisha Cook Jr. — Jeb
- Ruth Warrick — Mrs. Applebee
- John Fiedler — Brother Dismas Ostracorn - Explosives
Interesting facts
The Great Bank Robbery is a 1969 Western comedy film from Warner Bros.-Seven Arts directed by Hy Averback and written by William Peter Blatty, based on the novel by Frank O'Rourke. The movie had a soundtrack with songs by Jimmy Van Heusen.
Production notes
Zero Mostel uses the line "What we have here is a failure to communicate" which is similar to (and possibly a parody of or simply just a misquote of) a line from 1967's Cool Hand Luke. This line by Rev. Pious Blue is actually more often quoted than the original line and usually categorized as merely a misquote.
The railroad scenes were filmed on the Sierra Railroad in Tuolumne County, California.
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