Money Movers
Money Movers is a 1978 Australian crime action drama film directed by Bruce Beresford. The film was based on the 1972 book 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.
Plot
An armoured payroll truck owned by Darcy's Security Services is robbed and the driver, ex-policeman Dick Martin, is removed from armoured cars and put onto night patrols. The robbers are double-crossed by crime boss Jack Henderson, whose henchman Dino kills all the robbers.
More details
author | Bruce Beresford |
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contentLocation | Sydney |
director | Bruce Beresford |
editor | William M. Anderson |
events | class struggle robbery |
genre | action crime drama |
keywords | crime boss dirt track racing former employee gunshot wound insurance company night patrol speedway suffer truck driver warn |
nomination | AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay AACTA Award for Best Editing |
producer | Matt Carroll |
productionCompany | South Australian Film Corporation |
publisher | Roadshow Entertainment |
theme | action drama heist |