Monday, 28 November 2016

Timeline of the History of Crime Films

1903: The Great Train Robbery
American short silent film shot with a budget of $150. Bandits break into a railroad telegraph office and force the operator at gunpoint to stop a train. Once it is stopped, the criminals steal from the train and flee with the stolen possessions.

1941: High Sierra

A heist film and film noir. A crime boss hire his former 'employee', a notorious thief, recently released from prison, to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort. 

1960: Ocean's 11 

Danny Ocean gathers a group of his World War II compatriots to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist. Together the eleven friends plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night. 

1969: The Italian Job

A cockney criminal, recently released from prison plans to steal a gold shipment from Turin by creating a traffic jam.

1973: The Sting

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker. 

1991: Point Break

An FBI agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers. 

2000: Snatch

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond. 

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