Bank Shot

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The concept is sound: George C. Scott is the legendary heist man who breaks prison (in a 40-ton earthmover, no less, which makes for an interesting chase scene) to take charge of a haphazard job. Taking the term "bank robbery" literally, he decides to make off with the entire bank! Now he just has to hide it from a statewide dragnet (led by rotund redneck icon Clifton James) and keep his ragged gang in line while a volatile safecracker blows up everything except the safe. Adapted from the Donald Westlake novel (from his Dortmunder series) and directed at a shrill pitch by dance legend Gower Champion, Bank Shot is an awkward but amiable misfire of a comic caper. Scott seems ill at ease, as if wondering how he ever wound up here, but he maintains a straight face while all around him furiously mug for laughs. --Sean Axmaker

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Starring Oscar® winner* George C. Scott with a comical cast of "first-rate actors" (The New York Times), this "hilarious" (VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever) film brims with "wonderful and imaginative silliness" (Los Angeles Times)! Fresh from his recent jailbreak, criminal mastermind Walter Ballantine (Scott) is already plotting his next bank heist. Andthis time he's thinking bighe's not just taking the loot, he's stealing the whole bank! Beset bya hapless crew, a lusty backer and an overzealous prison warden, Ballantine soon discovers that, when your getaway vehicle is the bank itself, it pays to be America's most driven criminal! *1970: Actor, Patton, ISBN13: B00007GZRL ISBN10: B00007GZRL Material Type: dvd