Robbery (1985 film)

Robbery
Directed by	Michael Thornhill
Produced by	Michael Thornhill
Written by	Brian Dale
Starring	Simon Chilvers Regina Caigalas Tim Hughes Rhys McConnochie Richard Meikle
Production company	Edgecliff Film Group Indian Pacific Films
Distributed by	Network Ten
Release dates	1985
Country	Australia
Language	English

Robbery is a 1985 Australian TV movie about the Great Bookie Robbery.

Production

It filmed July to August 1985.^[1] Thornhill later claimed the film was extremely successful internationally.

It was made for 2/6 - that was at a time when you could get much more interesting projects through the television system here than you can now. I'm pleased with Robbery. It's a film noir that people didn't understand here as a film noir. Its basic theme is the revenge of the underclass and what the French would call the Petit Bourgeoisie, and what we might here call the lower middle class who are led by a disgruntled leader. It's a kind of revenge film noir thing, and because it's in 4 to 3, 133 to 1, it's made for television and that means the framing's exactly right. So I think it stands up rather well, actually. It doesn't get shown much here. It does overseas. It's continually playing on cable systems in France and England. The French dubbing is fantastic. In French voices it's all that spivvy, mock ironic spivvy lower middle class petit bourgeoisie stuff, while the officers have Ecole Nationale-type voices. It even actually went out on video in the States. I like it, I'm not ashamed of it, I think it's a nice little thing. But, because here it's seen as a B-genre thing, you've just got to put up with that here, roll with the punch, not bitch about it.^[2]

References

1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996
2. Interview with Michael Thornhill at Peter Malone site accessed 15 July 2013

External links

• Robbery at IMDB