The Brink’s Job
Warren Oates: Hired Hand
July 1 - 7, 2016
Peter Falk leads a gaggle of mugshot-ready character actors—including Oates as a wiggy WWII vet—who stumble into the crime of the century in William Friedkin’s rollicking heist comedy, based on a true story.
William Friedkin’s rollicking crime caper plays like a parody of a heist movie—swap the master criminals with a band of bumbling petty crooks, and the impenetrable bank vault with a comically easy-to-crack safe—but it’s based on a true story. Peter Falk leads a gaggle of mugshot-ready character actors as a two-bit hood in 1950s Boston who stumbles into the crime of the century when he discovers a cool $1.5 million sitting in a barely guarded Brink’s warehouse just begging to be pilfered. Oates supplies the dramatic gravitas as a wiggy World War II vet who gets drawn into the scheme.
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