The Great Armored Car Robbery (TV-1955) CRIME NOIR

The GOLDEN AGE of TELEVISION
This episode, originally from season 1 of the anthology series TV Readers Digest, was broadcast by ABC on April 25, 1955. Restored and edited by PizzaFLIX with recreated titles.
Stars: Alex Nicol, Ted de Corsia, Dorothy Green
Director: Harold Daniels
A thief masterminds a daring daylight armored car heist. Can this be the perfect crime?

[@Docneg]

Wow! They sure ran out of time at the end. Glad the narrator told us what happened after. Thanks for this restoration!

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

Terrific documentary. So good it could almost be fiction with actors!

[@blanchegouveia4644]

this movie was entertaining thanks

[@badbag9625]

Sorry. Every once in a while a film just doesn't hold my interest. This is one . Still , am NOT turned off on PizzaFlix. Ordering now and waiting for the delivery man!

[@garrysekelli6776]

Love how THE armed Robbers just Happen to have a scale model of THE Streets around where THE armored car Parks as One typically does.

[@viennapalace]

Ah, the good old days, when every crime gang worth it's salt had a model maker on the pay-role...

[@deby5983]

😂😂🤣🤣😅

[@jonhohensee3258]

@@viennapalace payroll

[@viennapalace]

@@jonhohensee3258 You just won me ten bucks! I made a bet with a colleague that some anal retentive no-life would correct my spelling & here you are... Thanks.

[@jonhohensee3258]

@@viennapalace I see that learning is painful for you. Poor thing.

[@tedthompson7770]

nice movie, good acting

[@elistickband]

"Don't put it away John, I want to look at it"....now there's something I don't hear every day.

[@RomanAlexander1]

Why is it red and angry johnny?

[@internetcensure5849]

@@RomanAlexander1 PORN insinuation, swine?

[@McIntyreBible]

The actor on the right (6:56) is in a couple of episodes of "Highway Patrol"

[@dantean]

Hard not to see THAT ending coming.

[@RetiredSchoolCook]

THANK YOU GOOD STORY

[@w0ndawar]

That's way too many people for a bank job

[@Saudyization]

Oh mein, that was great!👍

[@billybob9961]

Great video thank you

[@birdlynn417]

"Money excites the imagination, especially other peoples money." ha-ha

[@myrnagroger132]

What an abrupt ending. Must have been a $100 budget.(ls)

[@petermcgreevy6386]

I thought I had missed something until I read your Post.

[@myrnagroger132]

Yeah, no continuing story of how and when the others were caught. Once the top man fell (the domino effect) all the pieces came down with him.(ls)

[@justtimm1255]

Exactly I feel cheated out of 25 minutes.

[@foleyoni]

Always some Dame gotta chuck a spanna' in the woyks!

[@michaelhoffman5486]

such great shots of my city

[@randywiggins1248]

I can't believe anyone with his alleged criminal experience would not know they would kill him or grab his woman first but bet they knew to kill her as she might know there names.

[@jonhohensee3258]

their

[@bloodyl_uk]

A good old heist movie from before the time everybody realised jobs like this are to please the overseas crimelords.

[@donkeyslayer4661]

Who cares whether they're pleased or not?

[@pauldyckman7539]

Ever notice that police cars in the early/mid 50's film noir are often Nashes? With those oval grilles. I would like to have one though. Police hardware and all.

[@arachnonixon]

back then different depts. around the country had different cars, usually w/e they could get a good deal on & oftentimes made nearby. Lansing, MI for example used Oldsmobiles as squad cars for decades when they were made there. Pontiac, MI used Pontiacs, & Cadillac, MI even used Cadillacs. lol, pretty crazy from today's perspective

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

I can get you one -- with or without the machine guns? We also have the hard-to-find body in the trunk model

[@jonhohensee3258]

@@AFaceintheCrowd01 People carried a body in the trunk?

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally presented on "TV READER'S DIGEST" {April 25, 1955}.

[@jeremybear573]

Thank you for answering my question! I was going to ask what series this was from but you read my mind!

[@fromthesidelines]

You're welcome. :)

[@nadeemlodhi7673]

Nice darama...

[@HoTrEtArDeDcHiXx]

I don't like guys who wanna know where I am

[@michaelwertzy9808]

What about them devious dames?

[@buzzbang7930]

I don't even like dames, who wanna know where I am. lol

[@Retroscoop]

It ain't difficult to guess anyway, in the hotretardedchickencoop of course....

[@rickgano75]

Don't buy a home assistant, Google, Amazon know where you are but what you are saying.

[@death2pc]

A knockout dame, fedoras, Nash cop cars and Harley cop motorcycles........... Tension, tense music. What's not to like........?

[@frankmayer139]

All on a kyna a dame. He should have told her to take a hike. With a hundred grand in those days he could get plenty o dames, ones with class too.

[@raymondcancel7011]

All the planning for nothing, long lives dumb broads!

[@frankmayer139]

@@raymondcancel7011 Yup

[@ernestkovach3305]

@MDS dear Mr vulgar, you can bet THE farm that good woman was virtuous and a most CHASTE spouse.

[@internetcensure5849]

Yes, in US commodity relations now, don't even need money for that. Back then, they still had some social values.

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

Crime does not pay!!!!

[@raymondcancel7011]

Get another girl, with 100K you can get any woman!

[@michaelwertzy9808]

That's what has kept me going for 15 yrs. but I refused to follow her to the grave.

[@Retroscoop]

Yep, one whose middlename is Praying Mantis

[@johnc2438]

Right about that! His 25% share was about $143,000 of the haul ($572,000). In 2020 dollars, his share works out to about $1,376,000! Buys a lotta love! 😍

[@bryantlane8646]

CHEAP EMPTY LOVE/DR.LANE

[@internetcensure5849]

Yes, in US commodity relations now, don't even need money for that. Back then, they still had some social values.

[@botakchin713]

Wow those days no CCTV no need to wear mask

[@internetcensure5849]

now bad quality CCTVs

[@ernestkovach3305]

In real life such an absurd plan would be a recipe for disaster and doomed to fail . First, way too many people involved in the heist. Second, the idea that you want people to remember your faces selling ice cream or pitching horseshoes, or hanging out for days at a children's playground is absolutely the dumbest thing you can do as far as post crime witnesses and identification of the crooks are concerned. Third, if I'm an armored car guard or any law enforcement officer and a horn SUDDENLY goes off inexplicably near a bank , I would immediately freeze and alertly raise my gun automatically to defend! Fourth, a city on a major river would be, next to closing off highway in both directions within a certain radius, the first thing law enforcement would address as far as searching all boats leaving the area! Get real! At least the movie had the correct message for all you folks: Crime does not pay. He had a good woman. He should have listened to her at the outset . She must be very sad right about now.

[@dba2605]

First off these are writers telling a story that standards and practice had to approve so imagine writing a story with a both hands tied be hind your back 2nd there were no radios back in these days so the robbers had a huge advantage and no roads would be sealed like today...lookouts were deployed to spot foot traffic 3rd you can never say what you will do no matter the training if you are taken by surprise..guards are human not super heroes..i wont take a bullet for any job

[@Retroscoop]

I guess that's why it is a movie, and not a documentary....

[@ernestkovach3305]

@@Retroscoop indeed!

[@lsmart]

All good points, saved me the time. I mean, it's not like they all moved overseas after the heist. You only needed one of about 10 victims to recognize one of these guys in the street. Plus, these are all gangsters, and even in the old days police had mugshots. It would also be pretty dumb for Johnny not to realize that these guys were not gonna let him go ahead with his plan. They did not pretend to accept his explanation. Likewise, they had to be pretty dumb to think that killing him in the middle of the street would end their problems. After all, he knew many of these guys, so it's pretty reasonable the police would find them through his records. And wouldn't his wife sing about any of his cohorts she knew about?

[@internetcensure5849]

@@lsmart Witnesses are rarely reliable.

[@upallnite79]

Waaay too many dudes on this job. By the time they divide/skim up the dough errrbody will end up with $37.50

[@Condor-ex6pb]

Moral of the story... don't tell women anything!😂🤣🤐🤐

[@carryon2197]

Kids moral story!

[@nedludd7622]

Too many people and too intricate.

[@ronaldpokatiloff5704]

Don't feel bad for real people that die. The universe is inside a picture tube connected to a computer. May live the same life over and over. DNA is code that must come from a computer.

[@dba2605]

ok ok ..ill tell you

[@rickgano75]

This guy's wife ain't normal. I mean $100k tax free? Every woman I've known would off me and keep the money.

[@TheWriterWalker]

You need to meet the women I know.

[@jacquelinelewis8710]

Definitely you need to meet new women. Stay safe during Cornavirus pandemic.

[@TheWriterWalker]

@@jacquelinelewis8710, lol. Nice return.

[@internetcensure5849]

In present US culture, honesty and decency are not on the agenda.

[@raymondcancel7011]

THE WOMAN SPOIL EVERYTHING ,JUST LIKE IN THE GARDEN OF ADAN&EVE!

[@tomcherney42]

Count to 50, then getup... ha.

[@ivornappinion9406]

noir ?

[@ivornappinion9406]

@Ross Smith I bet you have

[@ivornappinion9406]

@Ross Smith true but that doesn't make sense

[@ivornappinion9406]

@Ross Smith noir

[@ivornappinion9406]

@Ross Smithbehave your self

[@itsmesia2469]

🙏💎🕊️❣️🕊️💎🙏

[@michaelthompson1188]

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[@zentil267]

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[@jimlaguardia8185]

He should have dumped the broad and kept the gelt.

[@manuelmaldonadojr2526]

I love it is old movie thanks.

[@johnmoran1317]

manuel-i like old movies too..they are my favorites

[@bobmartin7068]

What a nothing ending! Pure bullshit! Dont waste your time,

[@McIntyreBible]

(3:37) "Nora, I'd jump out of a window without you!"