cmvgor Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 *Support Your Local Sheriff* ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF is correct. I thought my plot description would apply to bunch of different westerns, but you picked the right one. Nice work, cmvgor. Your move. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Thanks, phroso. *Sheriff* is one of my favorites, and it stars one of my favorite comedy/action heros. New one: Caper: Assembly of specialists pull it off, then have a falling out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Certain amount of interest and fun in the "gather the team" sequence. The Gunman, the Driver, the Technician, etc, are put through certain tests by the Organizer, then find out what's going on _after_ they pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 (40,282) The heist is successful, then the money disappears. The crew members suspect each other, and with good reason, but an outsider has found the money and has taken it. 1960s release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Target: the "gate" take at a major sports arena on the day of a very big game. No advance or off-site sales; all tickets purchased with cash at the entrance. The theft goes down after the game has started. It works so smoothly that one of the crew jokes that "next time" they would come prepared to haul away all the coins, as well as the currency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 THE SPLIT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Affermative on *The Split* (1968). OK script, good showcase for some very able performers: Jim Brown, Donald Sutherland, Jack Klugman, James Whitmore, Diahann Carroll, Julie Harris, and others. A memorable line, given by Sutherland: "The last time I killed a man I got five thousand dollars. For eighty-five thousand, I'd kill you seventeen times." phrso's thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Thanks, cmvgor. Next clue: A troubled man in the Old West is unwillingly badgered into a gunfight, which he wins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 No, not quite that easy. In fact, I've only described the opening scene. After winning the gunfight, the protagonist is advised to leave town, despite his innocence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Knowing that his victim's three brothers are after him, he flees to another town to visit his estranged, long-unseen wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Gregory Peck as Jimmy Ringo in *The Gunfighter*. ?? Edited by: cmvgor on Mar 31, 2010 10:51 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 THE GUNFIGHTER, with a terrific lead performance by Gregory Peck, is correct. Good work, cmvgor. Your thread.. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Thankee kindly, phroso. New one: 60s. British. Brit POWs in WWII. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 If I remember correctly, *The Hill* involves not POWs, but British prisoners in a stockade under command of the British Army. The one I have in mind is fact-based, sourced from a biography of the hero, who was a prisoner of war for several years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 This remarkable British officer may well stand as a real-life counterpart to the hero of American TV's Hogan's Heros, having pulled a few Hogan-like capers a few times. One example: Working in a major railway-junction yard, he and his mates switched labels on some freight cars, thus sending submarine propellers to the farmlands, and tractor parts to the shipyards at the coast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 THE PASSWORD IS COURAGE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Correct, phroso. The feat that gave Sgt. Maj. Charlie Coward of The Royal Engineers (Dirk Bogarde) a respectable footnote in the history books is the fact that he once swapped outfits and places with a Jewish prisoner from the Auschwitz death camp and spent overnight in in the Jewish quarters. This fact got him summoned, post-war, to several different trials at Nuremberg. A person neither German nor Jewish who saw the inside of that hellhole was very valuable to the prosecution. phroso's thread. Edited by: cmvgor on Apr 2, 2010 11:40 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Next clue: A big city reporter in a career slump takes a job in a small town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 *Ace In the Hole* ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 ACE IN THE HOLES (AKA THE BIG CARNIVAL), possibly the harshest movie in Billy Wilder's entire caustic oeuvre, is correct. A great movie. Nice work, lavender. Your thread . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 Thanks,phroso. Natural and unnatural dangers cause possible deadly problems for a family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 An isolated beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 Sorry 6's, not the one I'm thinking about. There's an old army pistol in the glove compartment of their car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 A rotting pier collapses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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