A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
Direction
Brooks builds 40 minutes of wordless heist tension like a watchmaker.
Acting
Beatty's sweaty precision vs. Hawn's chaotic brilliance — chef's kiss.
Editing
Cross-cutting four simultaneous robberies without losing clarity? Witchcraft.
Director
Richard Brooks
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The entire heist was shot in chronological order so actors could physically exhaust themselves authentically — Beatty lost 15 pounds during production.
Released months before the real 1972 Munich massacre, its cynical european atmosphere and criminal antiheroes accidentally predicted the decade's paranoid thriller boom.
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