Gold


Anybody knows why was the gold 'travelling' during the day, instead of just sitting in a safe? I might have missed the explanation for that...
And the way they broke out of prison cells was just TOO easy. The prison (cells especially) wasn't that heavily guarded at all, as hinted before, and the guards are simply incompetent.

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Just watching it now. I think the Old Man said early to Sledge that the company that owned the mine had to get the large amounts of gold (dust) from the mine to the exchanges.

If you think about it, if you were the mine owner you probably also wouldn't want to just continue stockpiling increasingly massive quantities of gold out in some isolated location like the mine in the mountains.

It would make practical sense to move the gold dust in quantities easy enough to transport and guard to an exchange and convert it to currency or bank credits which would be easier to use/maintain as long as the banks didn't fail. (In fact, I think that's how Wells Fargo got its start - as a gold exchange and bank during the Gold Rush, and also as a transporter for the gold and cash [and passengers]).

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Thanks, raketex. It's been a while since I posted a message, but I remembered the movie and its scenes. Yes, that makes sense of course, somehow I got the impression the gold was just moving back and forth with no particular intention (like exchanges).

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