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Actors: Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Paul Sorvino, Warren Oates
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Brink's Job |
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When professional crook Tony Pino (Peter Falk) gets out of prison, he sets about putting his old gang back together. After knocking over a candy company with the help of his brother-in-law (Allen Garfield) and a bookmaker-turned-robber (Paul Sorvino), he takes a Brink's armored car for $30,000 with unbelievable ease.
Realizing that the security at Brink's headquarters is so loose that he can walk in and out as he pleases, he puts together a crew, including an ex-paratrooper safecracker (Warren Oates) and a money-laundering bar owner (Peter Boyle), and easily robs the Brink's safe of over $1.5 million.
Tony and his boys think they've got it made. But when every cop up to and including J. Edgar Hoover (Sheldon Leonard) gets into the act, they may be about to learn that stealing a million bucks is easy, but getting away with can be murder.
--James Craver, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Brink's Job |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- armed robbers!
- Thief/Con Artist POV story
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) fat
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- Boston
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
Any profanity?
- None
Is this movie based on a
- book
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