The Bank Shot (1974)
Bank Shot
Criminal Masterminds? Don't Bank On It.
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.
- Date of release
- 1974-07-31
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (34)
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Director
- Gower Champion
Casting
- George C. Scott — Walter Upjohn Ballentine
- Joanna Cassidy — Eleonora
- Sorrell Booke — Al G. Karp
- Clifton James — Bulldog Streiger
- Bob Balaban — Victor Karp
- Bibi Osterwald — Mums Gornik
- G. Wood — Andrew Constable
- Frank McRae — Herman Lincoln (aka Herman X)
- Don Calfa — Stosh Gornik
- Liam Dunn — House Painter
- Jack Riley — Agent Jackson
- Hank Stohl — Johnson
Interesting facts
Bank Shot is a 1974 American heist comedy film directed by Gower Champion and written by Wendell Mayes. It was loosely based upon Donald E. Westlake's 1972 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.
Production
Wendell Mayes later said he wrote it because he loved Westlake's novels but felt the film failed due to the direction of Gower Champion. "I felt that Hollywood had never truly done justice to his [Westlake's] peculiar brand of humor in motion pictures," said Mayes. "I was trying to do that brand of humor, something that is just slightly tilted, which at first you don't realize is slightly tilted.
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