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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
1,233 Views


No ideas, you'll both

be dead before you hit the ground.

Move it.

Turn around.

The guy's in the car.

That's it, smartass.

Red. Goody.

How's Dunlop?

That's for us to know and you to find out.

Shut up, Goody.

Well, what do you want, Red?

What do I want?

You got balls. I'll say

that for you, Johnny.

I want your ass, that's what I want,

my friend.

Hey, flattery's

not gonna get you guys anywhere.

Who's the comedian?

Name's Lightfoot.

Does he know everything?

- No.

- Yeah.

Lightfoot, huh?

Yeah.

It's a good thing I didn't

hit him in the face.

He'd be dead now.

You always had

a high opinion of yourself, Red.

What have you been preaching lately,

Johnny?

Survival.

- Are you ready?

- I've been counting the days.

That's for the kid.

Now, do you wanna talk

or you wanna play games?

What do you want me to do, Red?

Shut your face.

I can't breathe! I got asthma.

What do you want me to do now, Red?

Kill the son of a b*tch.

Here?

Yes.

Now?

NOW!

Don't ever point a gun at me. Understand?

Not even a twig.

You got it.

You come from the hitters, don't you?

What are you waiting for?

Why don't you kill me?

I would've killed you.

That doesn't make up

for a difference in two years.

I'm gonna kill you anyway.

The money was here, in the schoolhouse.

What's this garbage talking about?

The money was never recovered.

The TV, and the radio,

the papers, everybody was lying.

They were working with the police.

When Lamb died I...

I never came back here.

The money's still here. It's safe.

Here?

Yeah. Lamb went to school here in Warsaw,

a little one-room schoolhouse.

We put the money in the wall,

behind the blackboard.

Where's this one-room schoolhouse?

Gone.

Gone? Gone where?

I wish I knew.

Used to be

right where the new schoolhouse is now.

You expect me to believe all this crap?

It's the sad-ass truth, Red.

Why do you think

I'd come to a dumb town like this?

How the hell do I know?

You're queer for dumb towns.

Half a million dollars

just don't disappear like that.

They should've found

something when they tore the place down.

I wish I had the answer for you.

The sad part is that we got away with it.

It's a sin, that's what it is.

Christ, it's a sin.

Oh.

Boy, I feel old.

What are we gonna do now, Red?

Shut up, Goody.

I got hay fever too.

Why not do it again?

What's he mouthing off about now?

Montana Armored.

We hit the same place, the same way.

- Montana Armored?

- Yeah?

What?

Hey, they'd never expect it.

Not something that big.

It's never been done before, has it?

Oh, that'd really be

something, wouldn't it?

Yeah, it sure would.

Hey, I think that's a great idea.

Let's not get queer about a crackpot idea.

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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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