Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Ask a Policeman (1939), To Catch a Thief (1955), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), The Great Muppet Caper (1981), Bronson (2008), Two Way Stretch (1960) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Jewel Robbery movies.
Storyline: An autobiographical look at the break-up of Screenwriter Nora Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel Samstat (Meryl Streep), is a food writer at a New York City magazine who meets Washington, D.C. columnist Mark Forman (Jack Nicholson) at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.—Lisa Todorovich
Plot Keywords: suspicion, husband wife relationship, pregnant wife, infidelity, philanderer, yuppie, divorce ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jack Drake,a man with a hundred faces and in reality a modern-day Robin Hood known only as Crackerjack, thrills all England with his exploits of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. As a guest at a society party "Crackerjack" steals some valuable pearls, and the next day learns there has also been a hold-up at the party and a man killed. and Scotland Yard considers Crackerjack to be the leader of the killer-gang, and he realizes that someone is using his name to cover their own crimes. And sets out to prove it without having to disclose who he really is.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, deception, disguise, double cross, estate, evidence, false name ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Abused and dominated by men in her youth, Belle Starr now out-rides, out-smokes, out-shoots, and out-gambles them as she makes her way around the Old West, usually wearing male garb. One man who's her equal is Larry Blackie with whom she has an on-again, off-again relationship which is often argumentative and sometimes violent. Together they become involved in a robbery which goes awry. Belle has to rescue Larry and though he's grateful, he now wants to go his own way. However, he expresses the hope that someday they'll once more cross paths and then ... who knows?—dinky-4 of Minneapolis
Plot Keywords: straight razor, shootout, saloon, poker game, jewel robbery, interrupted hanging, guitar ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The old Commandant Lassard, leader of the Police Academy (1984), goes to Florida to receive an award. In the city arrives also the cynic Captain Harris who wants to take Lassard's job. Harris wants to place himself in a favourable light in front of the high military hierarchy but, at the airport, Lassard exchanges his bag with another one...
Plot Keywords: slapstick comedy, voyeur, police helicopter, police academy, fifth part, number in title, falling into a swimming pool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's worst detective, N.Y.P.D. Sergeant Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.—<rth@ece.arizona.edu>
Plot Keywords: hospital, elevator, jewel thief, unconsciousness, knocked unconscious, fire hose, fire ...
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