The St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959) [Film Noir] [Crime]
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- If you like this movie and our channel, please subscribe: goo.gl/0qDmXe | "The St. Louis Bank Robbery" (also called "The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery", the film title in the opening credits) is a 1959 heist film shot in black and white. The noir film stars Steve McQueen as a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery. The film is based on a 1953 bank robbery attempt of Southwest Bank in St. Louis. The film was shot on location in St. Louis and some of the men and woman from the St. Louis Police Department, as well as local residents and bank employees, play the same parts they did in the actual robbery attempt.
George Fowler (Steve McQueen) shows himself as an ex-football hero. He finds himself slowly drawn into the gangster world. With the gang in need of just $50 more, George asks his ex girl, Ann, for that amount in a check, supposedly for her brother Gino. The plan starts to unravel when she sees Gino coming out of a restaurant across the street from the bank. When questioned about it George later reveals he's involved with robbing the bank. She writes 'Warning The bank will be Robbed!' with lipstick on the window, the bank taking it as a joke. As the day of the heist grows nearer the tension within the gang heightens with no one trusting anyone. The robbers burst into George's and Gino's apartment that night and demand who talked to the girl about the robbery, seeing the lipstick warning. Gino breaks about his sister's (George's Ex girl) talking to George. George goes to her apartment with the gang and talks her into going to Chicago. Gino and George go to a park and wait. While Willie and John are taking her down the fire escape, John gets fidgety and hurls her off the escape down to the street below. They return to George and Gino, saying nothing about the murder. The next day the robbery is attempted as planned. Meanwhile the bank has replaced the switchboard, previously inside the bank, downstairs to what seems to be a better control room, a system which the robbers were betting on disabling to prevent calls to the police. John distrusts George and compels Willie to drive, instead of George, who will now be inside robbing the bank even though it's his first time on any illegal job. The robbing goes as planned until George can't find the switchboard they wanted to disable. The switchboard downstairs calls the police and they send a squad car over to the bank. When the police arrive, more arriving every second, the robbery goes astray. John gets killed while trying to take a hostage out and Gino commits suicide down in the vaults. Willie flees with the car, leaving his partners behind. George gets shot in the leg. He tries to take a hostage out, the woman's husband offering himself instead. As the wife is in his headlock, his arm aiming the gun at her husband, she says, "It's no use, he's vicious." Realizing just how far he went, George relaxes his grip and falls to the ground, muttering how he isn't 'vicious'. George is taken away, his last sight looking out the bars of the car.
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Directed by Charles Guggenheim and John Stix, produced by Jane Bridges, Katherine Drescher, Charles Guggenheim, Helen Hagen, Lee Hammond and Richard T. Heffron, written by Richard T. Heffron, starring Steve McQueen as George Fowler, Crahan Denton as John Egan, the boss, David Clarke as Gino, Ann's brother, James Dukas as Willie (the driver), Mollie McCarthy as George's ex-girlfriend, Martha Gable as Eddie's wife and Larry Gerst as Eddie.
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Source: "The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 13 June 2012. Web. 24 August 2012. en.wikipedia.or...
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This kind of movie makes me love more classic films! I wanna thank the producer of this film. Love it.
I live just a few short blocks from the intersection of Vandeventer and Kingshighway... I cannot believe how much has changed. Makes me wish I was born about 50 years earlier just to see how exciting St. Louis used to be
My grandparent had the absolute best stories about their time there. They always had little sayings for everything, little rhymes or whatever, always clean hearted never vulgar. They wouldn't like todays world.
I just love black and white movies reminds me when I was a kid those were the days. I think you guys for bringing good thoughts through your movies .
Pretty cool that the cops that were actually there played their own parts! Cool!
Love these old films! ❤ Keep them coming!
Thank you for posting and sharing! 👍👍👍
Another great upload.These movies are just so good compared to the bad ones of today.A pleasure to watch.
What a terrific find! I don't care what all you are saying about this flick. It was so well done! THIS is the type of movie that no one can even come to close to making today. Full of grit, and a darkness that cannot be duplicated.
Enrique Sanchez:
is agree, mc queen & Molly McCarthy did awesome in this. film, writer's did well.
most ppl do not know film's. sometimes it takes years to get recognized & Oscars.
well done to every item in film + the tech's.
I use to be in the industry I know what goes in to the speck ".
thanks Jenn
Great to see quality is still appreciated, Jenn!
I'm 49 minutes into it, and I wish that song would stop playing!! Half ass rock n roll! Thank God the Beatles weren't far behind!!!
Oh God, 52 minutes in & he's still leaving on the midnight train!
Best 1.5 hours I've spent in a while.
I live right off Kingshighway a few blocks away from the bank . This is very interesting to see 60 years later . So much has changed.
Wow. A performance driven heist film. A chance for everyone to make good...the director, and all the actors. This feels like a French noir, with it's naturalism. This is a very interesting film. It goes into corners and makes you feel like you're in them too. Great work by the lead bad guy...especially when he gets drunk. Thanks for putting this up. Feels like a classic episode of Naked City, with it's well drawn out characters. The tragedy of schemes.
sclogse1, John, the leader of the gang sounds like Ray Milland.
Wow is right!
Its so fun to watch these old movies and see how much has really changed. As a kid, I remember playing bank robber, now days, I don't think there is enough money in a bank to rob it. Its all done without even seeing or knowing who you are stealing from.
I lived less than half a mile from this bank, which is on the corner of Kingshighway and Southwest. I think it still is a bank but the sign on top just says"The Hill" as it is at the entrance to the Italian area of St. Louis called the Hill. I never knew about the robbery as a kid but the old folks in the area remember it vividly. The bank and the buildings on that street remain, as does a revitalized Tower Grove park. There are several pavilions like this one-built in the 1870s. The rest of the area is mostly the same, except with a library at the roundabout. I miss it so much. It is not a decayed place at all (except in a couple of streets-as all of StL is!) Perhaps the ones who say it is have not been there in awhile. And a young, beautiful Steve McQueen! Thanks for posting.
Tessie Mae appreciate the backstory tessamae
Tessie Mae lol
Tessie Mae
You are so right
i also grew up there used to bowl across the street at the palace bowl,,long torn down now,,tower grove park was my yard growing up,,know ever inch of it,,walked through the pavilion they met at going to roosevelt high school every day
Burgio, Palazzo,gravagna ,urtzis,perinos italians I knew on the hill👍
Crahan Denton gives one of the darkest and best performances I've ever seen. What an underrated actor. I've watched this movie many times just to observe him, he seems so for real. I also love the scenery and cars, and every minute of this movie is so interesting. I've met men who come out of prison and this is the way they get in their relationships with other men and a lack of relationships with women. They don't even consider themselves to be weird.
They didn’t have enough cops show up.
Let discuss about these.
His best Driving movie *** BULLETT **** PERIOD!! Thanks 4 the DL
This movie was based on true events that I really enjoyed watching it.
Also the film location was taken in St, Louis.
Thanks for the upload Timeless classic movies.
Ed
It says 1959...most cars look older
@@stj971 It's supposed to be set in 1953.
Interesting movie, as a historical glimpse of now-decayed cityscapes when they were new, plus all the wonderful cars. Just looked up Steve McQueen. I grew up with his movies, and always thought he was just a pretty boy actor. Turns out he had a more interesting life than anything he ever played on screen. And was tougher too.
Steve could do more with a glance than most actors with a sheet of dialogue. Like Robinson. Guess u don't know acting. Check out Bullitt and his acting and glances.
Steve was the best! Thomas crown Affair...hot!
It was a great movie!!! Thank goodness i didnt pay attention to other commenters of it was too slow, I hated the music etc.
It's a great chance to see a young Steve McQueen in action. and Crahan was totally bbc believable. However the movie differs in what really happened. Steve Mcqueen's character drove away when he saw all the cops...he got 25 yrs. One guy did kill himself, the leader of the gang was killed, and they caught the 4th robber who was sentenced to 25 yrs.
A big thank you for whomever posted this gem.
I like all these kind of classics. Much appreciated.
90 minutes, no gratuitous chases or explosions, good acting, nightmare vibes = good movie
This and Big Combo have some of the best understated innuendo in Film noir. This movie does not need a remake.
So a group of insane people rob a bank. The music in this movie alone is enough to drive people nuts.
That was too intense! They don't make many like that! It was so realistic I almost fainted.
i almost had a heart attack when that poor girl was thrown from the fire escape, oh my lord 😯
Excellent acting. The actors standout without the high budget that films are made of today. Also no computerized gimmicks in the film. Just talented actors. Its an organic real life film. I got the message , "crime doesn't pay".
It's feels like time travel watching this. The St.Louis Admiral riverboat waiting at the dock, No Arch Yet, No Poplar Street Bridge yet, 0:20-0:33 driving across the ol' McArthur Bridge which closed to automobile traffic in 1981. WOW!
Across the chain of rocks bridge you can see the old fairground some guy built on his own property..it's a violent ghetto now.
I was born and raised in St. Louis. Southwest Bank is still in the same location, but the scenery has changed tremendously.
That's cool!
That gazebo in Tower Grove looked like the same one still there. Magnolia looked more wooded back then.
@@HiddenHighways
Yes it’s still there I took a lot of photos in the park last year ... the park is still well kelp
You Mean To Tell Me That Bank Is Still Sticking Out In The Street, Like That ??
Love the cars! Takes me back to my childhood.
Unsafe at any speed, our '50 Buick lost its brakes when new and the entire family got hurt--Buick Corp. had been covering up its faulty master cylinder seals for YEARS. Now I drive Hyundai, screw Detroit.
Now this is exactly where I am originally from. St. Louis, Missouri. R.I.P. Steve McQueen!
The police Corporal who shot the holdup man with the woman hostage was Corporal Mel Stein. He passed away in 2016 at the age of 102. He was a US Marine who served in China in the late 30"s. He joined the St. Louis PD in 40 and reinlisted in the Marines when the war broke out, He made numerous island landings in the Pacific and when the war was over returned to police work. He was a very good police officer and his life story should be made into a movie.
God bless all our Veterans
This movie was something else dude!
Her acting performance was on par with Sofia Coppola's in The Godfather III
this is a great little B-movie... I love it
Don't get me wrong, it's a great old movie, well done .
Yes, Rogg but they didn’t have enough cops show up.
What d you think and let discuss about it .
The Great Southwest Bank Robbery. I used to work with one of the Security Guards that worked there.
Double standards all over the world!!!!!!
Thank you for uploading this, I've been wanting to watch it for a long time.
Steve McQueen is the best ✌️😎
First movie from the 50's that actually showed a peak inside of a real toilet/toilet- paper......!!
Early McQueen what a find Thanks!
Patrick J.
He's my fav!
11:37 '57 Buick caballero wagon, one of the coolest station wagons ever
Great twilight film with a cool/gloomy outfit that knows the works, and McQueen comparatively glib and frail before turning into the I-clam-up, what-men-worry superstar.
What a shot at the end! Great film
God, the scene where the main bad guy gets drunk and talks about his abusive mother was so real. After that, you see him struggle with his anger and pain as those memories resurface and he kills the girl. So dark…
McQueen was very serious about his acting and it shows in this film. He had studied acting in New York and appeared on Broadway.
Everything until the last ten minutes was excellent! Steve McQueen as an object of male desire... Complexly unresolved by ending. Dialog through most of the film anticipates late 1960's, ending responds to the 1940's. The sexual tension in this film is amazing! McQueen fights against being outed. A beautiful and simple girl tries to expose the truth but is captured by forces stronger than her.
OK,the last 10 minutes were not that strong. McQueen does call on his female companion as he is being defeated by the police adding to the unresolved tension between his attraction to "subversion" and his "love" for his college sweetheart. For the time period, an unbelievable portrait of sexual tension between men
@@pb629000 What the hell are you talking about?
The woman sealed her fate when she wrote on the bank window .
Oh goodness yes, she ran around doing everything she could to get those 33 steps
Crahan Denton as John Egan, the mastermind & head of the gang is excellent. Most audiences know him as Walter Cunningham in 1962's adaptation of 'To Kill A Mockingbird'. Crahan has the most expressive eyes I've ever on an actor.
Love the old beautiful cars.
Yes 🥰 I was born 🤣 in the middle to a
Me too, the cars are beautiful 😍...!
The vehicles! The cars made my mouth water. Not kidding...
Weird . I guess some of you folks feel the same. Where are you all from ? I am from Medicine Hat , Alberta . I hope I am not being a nuisance .I had to spell check nuisance . What a dipshit ...
Nah, I had to spell check Hyundai and I are a proud owner @@IETCHX69
Interesting that the real life counterpart of Steve McQueen's character was called Glenn Chernick, from Chicago. He'd played football for Marquette University for 2 and a half years until 1951. Early in 1953 (the year of the real St Louis robbery) he'd been wounded in a gun fight with a 76 year old nightwatchman while trying to rob a store. The nightwatchman was also injured. Glenn was the getaway driver in reality and was later caught at his father's house in Chicago. I tried to find a little more about Glenn as as far as I can tell he was born in 1930 and died in 2003.
Certainly not the last football star to lose his way. :( I wonder if he was the first. At what point since leaving university did it go wrong for him? I'm not sure why they changed the car in the film from the original Oldsmobile to a Buick. :/ An odd detail to change. I can see why they had some dramatic licence with other changes - but swapping an Oldsmobile for Buick seems odd. Maybe that car retailer guy had a side-deal going with United Artists? ;)
A lot of details about the St Louis raid can be found here:-
www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2410705/state-v-chernick/
www.stltoday.com/news/archives/april-this-is-a-stickup-everyone-stand-still-the-southwest/article_7398c4be-a4b9-50d7-aa73-4afd80fc0549.html
Crahan Denton rules in this film. Powerful actor.
Thanks for uploading such a great film... waiting for more...
Thirteen years after this was released McQueen used a .45 in another bank heist flic, “The Getaway”.
very excellent noir film. it was only Steve Mcqueen that reminded me i saw this yrs ago. other than that it was like a new movie to me. old age has its benefits. gritty well driven film thank you 🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🙏
Thanks for sharing it! I always enjoy watching Old Great Movies though. 👍👌👏
An of course, I'm a subscriber!
Thanks Again Though.
Off beat late 50's crime movie, too slow in parts but you have to keep watching. Wonder how much is fiction and how much is accurate to the actual event. Hard to believe I was a kid when this was made, it now seems like it comes from another world.
cameronpaul I liked it very much because it was off beat. They created the life of desperate small town hoods and traced how they each destroyed themselves in the course of the caper. The music was superb. If it had been an A-picture, it probably would have lost all the grittiness. I like both A and B pictures They each have their qualities. Some manage to bridge the gap. I think the film with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis had the documentary touch on a bigger budge. I think the name was the Sweet Smell of SUccess,. I'll google the correct name after I close this browser.
Same here. I can't believe I actually remember when those were the kind of cars you'd see on the street every day. I wish I owned every car that appeared in this movie. They'd be worth a fortune. From that angle, this was a very nostalgic film for me. That and Steve McQueen's appearance made it watchable but only just barely. But often that is the case when they make a film about real events. Even back in those days cops didn't just indiscriminately shoot up a building full of innocent civilians. There is a lot of exaggeration in this movie just for dramatic effect. There was way too much build up to a mediocre ending. This could have been a fantastic movie if the first hour was edited down to 15 minutes and they focused on expanding upon the bank scene, They could have made that part more dramatic. Still, it is difficult to make a movie out of what probably occurred in about 15 minutes.
Lol he gave him back tha gun,, like uh uhhh that’s yo case 😂😂
Hey, a young Steve McQueen.
This was excellent.
I use to make trips to Southwest Bank with my grandfather as a child. I recognize alot of the scenery like Famous Barr Southtown that is no longer there. (where Steve McQueen steels the license plates). Cant believe I have never seen this movie. Enjoyed for the nostalgia. The bar they go to...is that one on Kingshighway?
+laradtek Calle The Eagle according to the film.
I can't believe that gang boss got him to steal a license plate in broad daylight.
That moment in the restaurant when she said “give it up” (45:32), that was an invitation and a chance. George threw everything away.
Oddly enough, apparently that's how it really went down--tear gas, indiscriminate shooting, all of it.
Does that remind you of anything?? Say, the present.
Yeah, it's like "don't be a hero it's just money" while the cops put a million bullets through a building containing innocent bystanders. Even more reckless than Pacino in Heat, though that was a great movie shootout.
RIP STEVE MCQUEEN ♥️
It's interesting that when movie first came out the billboard had picture of the city then when Steve McQueen became famous the new billboard had a picture of him. Guess is common.
i like the way the cars looked like they had faces back then
Wow I use to say that all the time about those cars back then... I thought I was the only one who thought that... but I see you do too.
They mentioned terrible drivers when they're at Tower Grove Park.
I currently stay out of St Louis because the drivers are terrible. Speeding, changing lanes with no reason, using no signals, I'm surprised there are not pile-ups everyday in that City.
Good movie. I always liked Steve McQueen's Acting. Excellent Cast, Direction and Music Score by Bernardo Segall. Thanks for the upload. Out.
That was a good one! Great upload thanks!
She loved him so much she literally sealed her fate by writing on that window
Classic and Wondering how talented they were who made this story, I think writer's Brain Child maybe. I Salute You.
You call me Georgie one more time . . . just one more time . . . my name is GEORGIOPOLISCO MCGUIRE SMITH!!!!
@@kellywatts248 : Are you addressing me? or channel owner?
Like everyone else I thought this film was dreadfully slow and the acting awful. The best thing to do is to read the script above which gives away the entire plot. Then using the extra time, go and watch Crime of Passion, made around the same time, which is brilliant.
12 years old working 12 hours a day is low-key slavery 👀... I can't get enough of movie from this era, love it...
Crahan Denton the tough boss ... It is from this actor and this film that Clint Eastwood took all his tough guy style. There are even a few lines in the film that Eastwood picked up in his movies.
It's the 1st time I ever saw anybody buckle up an overcoat in a Film Noir flick. They always tie it in a knot-like Bogie...
My parents had an account in that bank. Went their.
It's there not their. It's their life. There is where they are.
Clearly John had an unnatural affection for Steve McQueens' character. They could not have gotten any close to showing it with out code violation.
This is an excellent Movie
To me, this movie was very good!!!!
Much appreciated.
Let discus about it if you still active on here.
Tower Grove👍 pavilion still there, didn't know that till now. Shout out to st.louis.it used to be a nice place.
We know what ruined it...same everywhere, but read between the lines.
It's slow but the drama makes it real as it really did occur. Worth the watch
I really appreciate all the work it took to gather all these amazing clips, and then organize them in such a professional way.
Let discuss if you really want to about the Drama.
@@kellywatts248 Hi Kelly :o) I'm older then dirt and that makes me love a lot of the Silver screen actors act and use real stuntman in-place of the loud computer generated stuff. // Today the patrons are teen ages. Why? We have TV. The adults won't go to the theater due to poor story lines and too loud to make out what they're saying on the big screen.
Stars like Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney that grew up at MGM are still great on TV or on my 32" computer
Warm Smile ~ Chuck
@@chuckkady7282 I’m very sorry for the late comment.
It's a day of smiles and laughter, chuck. Plus, you can rest and prepare for an active and productive new week.
Have a nice Sunday and we can chat on Facebook or via email continuously.
Music connects.
@@kellywatts248 Hi Kelly. :o) Thanks for the positive reply. I'm in my 70s. (uh oh) I don't respect the CEO of Facebook so I won't join. I love the USA our Constitution & Bill Of Rights the way they were established.
If you sent e-mail I'd be happy to share anything with you. :o) Hugs Chuck
This movie has a very trippy vibe.
I'm gonna have to rewatch this on acid.
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I want to trip with you, ...!?
That would be great 👍.....
@@scottmelby1678 I still haven't done it but I do have a couple hits of acid in my freezer. Thanks for reminding me
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I like this.
Thought it was just me. If you ask me, that's why the boss goes bonkers and throws the girl off the fire escape--he envisions having McQueen's character for himself ("He's a real man! He doesn't care about you!")
NOPE !!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, he's gay but the McQueen character isn't.
Good movie, hands down.
The only reason to watch this is McQueen's first role. Very strange background track. Ha
The black Buick's rooftop antenna keeps changing its angle every few seconds. I only turned mine (from the inside, no less) up when I played the radio, this one's not even extended.
LOL I LOVE THE PART WHEN THE COPS SHOWED UP AT THE BANK QND JUST START SHOOTING INTO THE BANK. LMAO, THAT WAS FUNNY, AND WHEN JOHN TAKES HIS FIRST HOSTAGE SHE LETS OUT A SHRIEKING YELL OUTSIDE...LOL LOVE IT!
Sometimes during Steve's closeups, he almost reminds me of Jean Seberg. (I've been looking at Breathless last couple of days)
That whole license plate scene was ridiculous.
in broad daylight 🤨🤔
JOHN, THE LEADER OF THE GANG SOUNDS LIKE RAY MILLAND. AND DAVID CLARK (GINO) THE BROTHER OF STEVE McQEEN'S FLAME LOOKS LIKE JOE PESCI.
Criminals NEVER learn do they. I work in a state prison & am surrounded daily by these types. They ARE malignant minds & can NEVER be rehabilitated!
I've worked in jobs where I knew a lot of ex-cons, especially when I was a welder. A good friend of mine was an ex-Blood. The ones I was friendly with were reformed, but only because they had become Christians, gotten married and were raising families. Even then they often went through some pwrsonal struggles. Being Christians was what saved them during these times. Those that didn't undergo some type of Christian conversion were, as you note, very likely to go back into crime
I disagree, with some...
Have a great day
Interesting if based on a true story but apparently cheaply made with only one weird rock song playing "Leaving On That Midnight Train". Must have been written especially for the movie.
Love good old movies!
33:49. This guy could have easily played Capone.
Thank you...great old Classics :))
Not bad film noir. Early McQueen.
That was an incredible movie. I watched this on 5/29/20, a date in which there are no good guys in America or the world. There are only evil people and the apathetic people who enable them.
Good Movie 🎬 😊
The STARS of this movie were......Cars. --- M.S.A.
M.A. ?!? Did you read my comment about the cars makin' my mouth water .....
That rare 57 Buick Caballero! Almost as nice as Diane Keaton's in Godfather II
Current movies are increasingly annoying and difficult because of many reasons, actors all mumble and slur their speech and an entire film may be in complete darkness.. what's happening? And background music is droning out everything especially the "hip-hop" lyrics seems to be guiding the plot lines. Sadly motion pictures and convincing acting is a dead art.
Crime doesn't pay . . . in 1959.
Hayes Code - crimes were not allowed to be shown as being successful.
This reminded me of Disorganised Crime, with Corbin Bernson and Fred Gwynne.
I love Steve McQueen 🙏🌺💐👍🌱🍀🥀🌷 the best actor 🌲🌸💐
Not a bad movie, worth the hype .
Let discuss about this 🎥 🍿 if you free Maggie 😀