{"id":36328,"date":"2024-08-02T06:29:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T10:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36328"},"modified":"2024-08-02T06:30:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T10:30:55","slug":"armored-car-robbery-1950-directed-by-richard-fleischer-starring-charles-mcgraw-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36328","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Armored Car Robbery&#8221; (1950) directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Charles McGraw \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z080224zview_armoredcarrobbery.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"770\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Armored Car Robbery (1950)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Richard Fleischer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Gerald Drayson Adams, Earl Felton;<\/strong> story by<strong> Robert Leeds, Robert Angus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman, Douglas Fowley, Steve Brodie, Don McGuire, James Flavin <\/strong>and<strong> Paul Bryar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>THE STICK-UP THAT STUNNED THE NATION!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A daring daylight robbery of a baseball stadium nets the crooks $500,000. The thieves didn\u2019t get away clean though. A passing police car was alerted to the crime. A shootout ensued. A cop was killed and one of the crooks gutshot. Now the killed cop\u2019s partner, Lt. Jim Cordell (McGraw) is teamed with a rookie. Their partnership gets off to a rocky start.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the thieves are having trouble deciding their next move. It\u2019s clear their wounded partner needs quick medical attention. The police are closing in. A surprising decision by their leader changes everything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">$500,000 is a lot of money\u2026 if they live to spend it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Armored Car Robbery<\/em> is a low budget crime drama that benefits from location shooting, film noir visuals as well as competent acting and direction. The final death is pretty wild for a movie made in 1950.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><i><b><em><strong>Armored Car Robbery (1950)<\/strong><\/em> <\/b><\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\">rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z080224zview_armoredcarrobbery2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armored Car Robbery (1950) Director: Richard Fleischer Screenplay: Gerald Drayson Adams, Earl Felton; story by Robert Leeds, Robert Angus Stars:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36332,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36328\/revisions\/36332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}