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Post by Karl Aksel on Jan 7, 2020 17:15:35 GMT
This is a movie from the '60s or '70s, and takes place in that time. I am 90% sure the bomber was a B-17, and 50% sure the tank was an M3 Grant. The tank was used as part of the heist itself, and the bomber was their getaway transportation.
As I recall revolves around a gang planning to steal a great amount of silver bars from... wherever. Their old leader has just gotten out of prison, and the gang is worried he has lost his touch. To prove to them he's still got it, he robs a gas station without a weapon (he pretends to have a gun in his pocket). As their car drives off, the teller comes out shaking his fists - the gang members laugh at his apparent indignation. The movie cuts to the teller, who is actually waving fistfuls of cash that the gang leader forgot to take with him - apparently they were old acquaintances, and the robbery was staged.
I remember very little from the heist itself, only that an old tank was involved, and the leader wasn't very happy with it. But the heist succeeds, they escape with the silver to an airstrip and load the silver into the bomb-bay of an old B-17. The law is not far behind, and they need to take off right away. However, the silver makes the plane too heavy to take off, and they are forced to dump it all.
That's about all I can remember from the film. I vaguely remember one of the gang-members getting in trouble with a restaurant chef, for making a slight criticism of the use of oregano. But that could well be from another movie for all I know.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jan 7, 2020 17:35:53 GMT
I think I saw that movie once, but I seem to recall that the tank was an M13/40. No promises but I'm going to see if I can find it.
EDIT -- Not completely sure, but try "After the Fox" from 1966.
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Post by Karl Aksel on Jan 7, 2020 19:01:56 GMT
I think I saw that movie once, but I seem to recall that the tank was an M13/40. No promises but I'm going to see if I can find it. EDIT -- Not completely sure, but try "After the Fox" from 1966. I don't remember it being a Peter Sellers movie, and the few clips I've seen on Youtube ring no bells, I'm afraid. I think the gang leader was grey a suave, haired, moustachioed gentleman.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jan 7, 2020 19:17:00 GMT
I think I saw that movie once, but I seem to recall that the tank was an M13/40. No promises but I'm going to see if I can find it. EDIT -- Not completely sure, but try "After the Fox" from 1966. I don't remember it being a Peter Sellers movie, and the few clips I've seen on Youtube ring no bells, I'm afraid. I think the gang leader was grey a suave, haired, moustachioed gentleman. That's the way I remember it too. He convinced the owner of the tank to sell it by telling him that his son was in the war on that same kind of tank. He might be an actor whose name I would recognize if I heard it again, but right now I'm drawing a blank. I'll check Cesar Romero and see if he made a movie matching your description. It's somewhat maddening to remember a movie by its plot and not recall a single name to go with it.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jan 7, 2020 19:29:26 GMT
I think I saw that movie once, but I seem to recall that the tank was an M13/40. No promises but I'm going to see if I can find it. EDIT -- Not completely sure, but try "After the Fox" from 1966. I don't remember it being a Peter Sellers movie, and the few clips I've seen on Youtube ring no bells, I'm afraid. I think the gang leader was grey a suave, haired, moustachioed gentleman. I just took a look at "Midas Run" but it is not as I remember. The tank looks like a postwar M47. I'll keep looking when time allows. Must go to work now. Later.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jan 7, 2020 22:34:22 GMT
Change silver to gold and it COULD BE The Italian Job (1969)?
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Post by Karl Aksel on Jan 7, 2020 23:05:27 GMT
Hmmm, it's not Midas Run, and it's not The Italian Job. Midas Run, by the way, is on Youtube:
Indeed a post-war tank, and no bomber in sight.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jan 7, 2020 23:13:11 GMT
Hmmm, it's not Midas Run, and it's not The Italian Job. Midas Run, by the way, is on Youtube:
Indeed a post-war tank, and no bomber in sight. Then I DON'T know what film it IS! Are YOU sure it's NOT The Italian Job (1969) since it has BOTH a tank and an airplane (NOT specified as what type of aircraft) according to IMDb?
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Post by Karl Aksel on Jan 7, 2020 23:15:41 GMT
Hmmm, it's not Midas Run, and it's not The Italian Job. Midas Run, by the way, is on Youtube:
Indeed a post-war tank, and no bomber in sight. Then I DON'T know what film it IS! Are YOU sure it's NOT The Italian Job (1969) since it has BOTH a tank and an airplane (NOT specified as what type of aircraft) according to IMDb? I know The Italian Job very well, especially the original, and it certainly isn't that one. Their escape vehicle is a bus, which hangs precariously off a cliff in what is literally a cliff-hanger ending.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jan 7, 2020 23:25:36 GMT
Then I DON'T know what film it IS! Are YOU sure it's NOT The Italian Job (1969) since it has BOTH a tank and an airplane (NOT specified as what type of aircraft) according to IMDb? I know The Italian Job very well, especially the original, and it certainly isn't that one. Their escape vehicle is a bus, which hangs precariously off a cliff in what is literally a cliff-hanger ending. Good to know. NOT a CLUE, sorry!
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jan 8, 2020 17:43:02 GMT
I know The Italian Job very well, especially the original, and it certainly isn't that one. Their escape vehicle is a bus, which hangs precariously off a cliff in what is literally a cliff-hanger ending. Good to know. NOT a CLUE, sorry! I remember one time someone asked about a 1960's heist movie, so I suggested "Grand Slam," but you said "The Italian Job" and you were right. I'm sure I've never seen it because I would have remembered Michael Caine. He has a way of leaving his imprint on every film he does. I definitely remember that the movie the OP is describing took place in Italy, and although I don't remember the bomber, the tank was an M13/40 (Italy's standard tank from 1940 to 1943), and those twin machine guns are placed in the hull like the 75mm on the Grant. I also tried looking up movies in which a B-17 bomber was included, and no luck so far.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jan 9, 2020 2:01:07 GMT
Good to know. NOT a CLUE, sorry! I remember one time someone asked about a 1960's heist movie, so I suggested "Grand Slam," but you said "The Italian Job" and you were right. I'm sure I've never seen it because I would have remembered Michael Caine. He has a way of leaving his imprint on every film he does.
I definitely remember that the movie the OP is describing took place in Italy, and although I don't remember the bomber, the tank was an M13/40 (Italy's standard tank from 1940 to 1943), and those twin machine guns are placed in the hull like the 75mm on the Grant. I also tried looking up movies in which a B-17 bomber was included, and no luck so far.
I GIVE UP (for now)...
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Post by Karl Aksel on Dec 5, 2022 8:02:22 GMT
Ok, I finally solved it. This movie is THE BIGGEST BUNDLE OF THEM ALL (1968). The plane was indeed a B-17, and the tank does indeed seem to be an M13/40, like Herald says - but probably masquerading as an M5 Stuart (in the movie it's being sold by US Army surplus - though the movie does take place in Italy.)
Phew!
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