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Synopsis: Seven years after a daring bank robbery involving an anti-tank gun used to blow open a vault, the robbery team temporarily puts aside their mutual suspicions to repeat the crime after they are unable to find the loot from the original heist, hidden behind a school chalkboard. The hardened artilleryman and his flippant, irresponsible young sidekick are the two wild cards in the deck of jokers.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Michael Cimino
Production: MGM/UA Distribution
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
R
Year:
1974
115 min
1,230 Views


Hang on!

He went over the...

What do we do now, Red?

Geronimo!

Now, in a case like this,

you can't take your

hands off the wheel even for a second, see.

Get your hands on the wheel.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Sh*t!

What do we do now, Red?

Shut up, Goody.

Goddamn ding-ding.

Ah.

Yeah, transmission's finished.

Seals are all gone.

Cadillac's my car anyway.

Where are we now?

Hells Canyon.

Snake River.

Mostly huntin' camps and sheep camps.

Up here, people's business

is nobody's but their own.

Hells Canyon delivery boat's gonna come by

pretty soon. The Idaho Dream.

Should take us right up the river.

Better off gettin'

as far away from me as you can, boy.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Lonely country, kid.

You got any people?

I don't even know anymore.

That's weird.

Last time I saw any of

them I was just a kid.

I was a little too much for them to handle,

you know.

So, they sent me away

to one of these boarding schools.

And on the train I met this woman.

Oh, man!

So, the next thing I know,

we're getting off

the train together in New Orleans, right.

Two weeks later,

I wake up in some fleabag hotel.

on, God!

But we had ourselves a good time.

So, after her, things looked good.

I kept movin'.

Now, you can't stop?

Here she is.

Idaho Dream.

Oh, did you see that?

Oh, a steelhead, man. Beautiful.

- Ah... Did you see that?

- Where?

Yeah.

Well, my good friend, we're broke.

Do you have any suggestions?

If I knew what you know,

I'd never be broke.

Well, what do you think I know

that you would like to know?

All right.

Well, for one thing, I'd like to know

if there's a good way of beating a bank.

Banks!

What the hell do you know about banks?

What the hell do you know about banks?

What's so funny?

- You.

- Me?

That's right.

Hey, a man can do

whatever he sets his mind to.

Now, me,

I wanna walk in

and buy a white Cadillac convertible.

Actually walk in and buy it, cash.

You might set your mind

to gettin' us a lift.

- Hey!

- This walkin' is tough on my bad leg.

This is the best time.

Most state troopers are having coffee now.

Hey! Hey!

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Hey!

That sure isn't any white Cadillac.

Beggars can't be choosy.

You simple-minded son of a b*tch.

Get in the back seat. Get in the back seat.

There's a raccoon in here.

Hell with the raccoon.

Get in the back seat.

Boy, what's the matter with you? I ain't

got all day to wait on you. Come on.

I've been...

I'll take you wherever you wanna go.

I've been drivin' all

over this country, man.

This guy another friend of yours?

Slightly advanced, isn't he?

Hey!

Hey, what's wrong with this wreck?

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Michael Cimino

Michael Cimino ( chi-MEE-noh; February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and author. Born in New York City, he graduated from Yale University in 1963 and began his career filming commercials. He moved to Los Angeles to take up screenwriting in 1971. After co-writing the script of Magnum Force and Silent Running he wrote the preliminary script Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Clint Eastwood read the script and sent it to his personal production company, which allowed Cimino to direct the film. After its success, Cimino co-wrote, directed, and produced the 1978 Academy Award-winning film The Deer Hunter. His next film, Heaven's Gate (1980), proved to be a financial failure. Cimino directed four movies after Heaven's Gate, but none were as successful as The Deer Hunter. more…

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