Money Movers

Money Movers (1978)

Action that will hit you like an armoured truck!

A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.

Date of release
1978-10-24
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Action, Crime, Thriller
Director
Bruce Beresford

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$330K
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 2

Money Movers is a 1978 Australian crime action drama film written and directed by Bruce Beresford. The film was based on the 1972 novel The Money Movers by Devon Minchin, founder of Metropolitan Security Services. The story deals loosely with two real-life events, the 1970 Sydney Armoured Car Robbery where A$500,000 was stolen from a Mayne Nickless armoured van, and a 1970 incident when A$280,000 was stolen from Metropolitan Security Services' offices by bandits impersonating policemen.

Production

After making The Getting of Wisdom Bruce Beresford signed a contract with the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) to make two films in two years. He wanted to make a movie that was in complete contrast with his last movie, and had written a script called The Ferryman. However the SAFC did not want to make it and they offered him a number of other projects instead.

Shooting took six weeks in February and March 1978. Although the film was based in Sydney, it was shot mostly in the studios of the SAFC and at various locations in Adelaide, notably the Rowley Park Speedway, with some scenes also filmed in Sydney. This is seen with vehicles regularly jumping between South Australia's black on a white background licence plates and the NSW version of black on yellow.

Although fake money was used in the film, where there was calls for large amounts of cash, (approximately A$1 million was used) real armed guards from Metropolitan Security Services (MSS) were on hand.

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