The Brink's Job
Director: William Friedkin
Genre: Comedy, Crime Fiction, Action, Heist, Crime, Caper story, Drama
Year: 1978
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language, Italian Language
Starring: Warren Oates, Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Peter Boyle, Paul Sorvino, Sheldon Leonard, Allen Garfield, Gerard Murphy, Kevin O'Connor, Earl Hindman
The Brink's Job is a 1978 film directed by William Friedkin and starring Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates, Gena Rowlands, and Paul Sorvino. It is based on the Brink's robbery in Boston, where almost 3 million dollars were stolen.
The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Dean Tavoularis, Angelo P. Graham, George R. Nelson).
Small-time Boston crook Tony Pino (Peter Falk) tries to make a name for himself. He and his five associates attempt to pull off a large-scale robbery whenever they could. After Tony and his gang easily rob over $100,000 in cash from a Brinks Armored Car, Tony disguises himself as a sparkplug salesman and is able to get inside Brinks' large and so-called "impregnable fortress" headquarters in the city's North End, a company renowned for its unbreachable security and private banking throughout the East Coast. Once inside, Tony realizes that Brinks is anything but a fortress and the employees treat the money "like garbage". Still wary of Brinks' image, Tony breaks in one night after casing the building to find that all but two doors in the building are locked, and one is easily bypassed by leaping a gate. The only
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