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Small time crooks, anyone?

posted 10 years ago by Jelena555
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I'm watching the movie at the moment, but the idea of digging under the shops reminded me of Small time crooks by Woody Allen. Just mentioning...

[–] johndeckbose 9 years ago

Small Time Crooks is a remake/ripoff of the Edward G. Robinson comedy, Larceny Inc. (1942), but neither of them is like The Bank Job in any other respect.

[–] spookyrat1 9 years ago

Whether they were small time or not, the fact remains that a gang of crims did tunnel into a branch of Lloyds Bank at the junction of Baker Street and Marylebone Road in London. So really this film is not ripping off other films in depicting a fictional story about those true events.🐭