The Brink's Job
1978 film by William Friedkin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Brink's Job is a 1978 American crime comedy drama 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 of 1950 in Boston, and the book about it, Big Stick-Up at Brinks by Noel Behn. Robbers stole $2.7 million in cash, checks, and government securities.[2]
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Directed by | William Friedkin |
Screenplay by | Walon Green |
Based on | Big Stick-Up at Brinks by Noel Behn |
Produced by | Ralph Serpe |
Starring | Peter Falk Peter Boyle Allen Garfield Warren Oates Gena Rowlands Paul Sorvino |
Cinematography | Norman Leigh |
Edited by | Robert K. Lambert Bud S. Smith |
Music by | Richard Rodney Bennett |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Language | English |
Budget | $16.4 million[1] |
Box office | $14.5 million (rentals)[1] |
The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Art Direction (Dean Tavoularis, Angelo P. Graham, Bruce Kay and George R. Nelson).
The film uses facts (and participant names) from the case, although several actual details are omitted or elided together in order to tell a compact story.[2]