Professional safecracker Frank wants one last big score before he walks away from crime for good and builds a future with the woman he loves, but the underworld isn’t ready to let him go. Starring James Caan, with a pulsing synth score by Tangerine Dream, Michael Mann’s directorial debut is a cool, tightly controlled thriller, noted for its hyper-real safecracking sequences and its influence on the visual style of crime films that followed.

This screening will be introduced by film programmer and writer Georgia Humphreys.

Showing as part of our Bank Robbery Weekend (Fri 28th – Mon 31st Aug) alongside Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Rififi (1955), and Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Want to make a steal of your own? Book tickets to any two of these screenings for a 20% discount. Book tickets for three screenings and get a 25% discount. Want to see the lot? Purchase tickets for all four films and get a 30% discount on the total cost.

Reviews

‘What distinguishes the film is its sense of atmosphere and tension, the way Mann takes you through, pace by pace, the contemporary world of big-time crime. It’s a subculture of its own’
Derek Malcolm, The Guardian