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* DrivenToSuicide: After the bank robbery goes pear-shaped, Gino tries to escape. Finding there is no way out, and having vowed he was NeverGoingBackToPrison, he [[AteHisGun puts his gun his mouth and kills himself]].
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* PlethoraOfMistakes: George Fowler is recruited to be the getaway driver for the titular bank robbery. John Egan (the gang's leader) has planned everything meticulously and timed things down to a second. However, Ann, (George's ex-girlfriend) finds out about the robbery and tries to inform the authorities. John kills her for knowing too much and changes the plan so now Willie is the driver and George has to come into the bank with the other robbers. The day before the robbery the bank makes a small change that causes the entire plan to unravel. The police show up and Willie panics and drives off without the others. The robbery ends with John shot by the police while taking a woman hostage, Gino committing suicide in the vaults and George captured.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Two occur to upset the carefully planned BankRobbery. first, Egan swaps the GetawayDriver role from George, and Willy didn't know that he was supposed to bring along a police-frequency scanner. Secondly, the bank has relocated a switchboard from the lobby to the basement that morning, which the the gang is unaware of. Seeing the old switchboard unattended, they assume they no longer have to take the switchboard out of commission. Combined, these two factors allow the bank staff to trip the alarm, and leave the robbers unaware that the police are on their way.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Two occur to upset the carefully planned BankRobbery. first, Egan swaps the GetawayDriver role from George, George to Willy, and Willy didn't know that he was supposed to bring along a police-frequency scanner. Secondly, the bank has relocated a switchboard from the lobby to the basement that morning, which the the gang is unaware of. Seeing the old switchboard unattended, they assume they no longer have to take the switchboard out of commission. Combined, these two factors allow the bank staff to trip the alarm, and leave the robbers unaware that the police are on their way.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Two occur to upset the carefully planned BankRobbery. first, Egan swaps the GetawayDriver role from George, and Willy didn't know that he was supposed to bring along a police-frequency scanner. Secondly, the bank has relocated a switchboard from the lobby to the basement that morning, which the the gang is unaware of. Seeing the old switchboard unattended, they assume they no longer have to take the switchboard out of commission. Combined, these two factors allow the bank staff to trip the alarm, and leave the robbers unaware that the police are on their way.
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* VillainProtagonist: George Fowler is a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a BankRobbery.
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* HideYourGays: It is strongly implied that Egan and Willy are in a homosexual relationship. They have been constant companions ever since Egan 'protected' Willy in prison, and share a hotel room. Egan comments on how Willy is getting fat, and reminds him how pretty had had been when he first arrived in prison. And Willy gets jealous when Egan takes an interest in the handsome, young George Fowler and invites him to join them in Mexico after TheHeist.
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* CrimeProcedural: Details the planning and preparation for the BankRobbery, and how George's involvement with Ann threatens to send the whole thing off the rails.
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* CrimeProcedural: Details the planning and preparation for the BankRobbery, and how George's involvement with Ann threatens to send the whole thing off the rails.
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* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: On learning that the newcomer George Fowler has no criminal record, he takes George with him and forces him to steal the licence plates the gang will require for the BankRobbery to prove his criminal credentials.
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* CouldntFindAPen: A drunk Ann goes to the Southwest Bank at night and writes a warning about the impending robbery on its window in lipstick.
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* AbusiveParent: John Egan is a HeManWomanHater who refuses to have women even tangentially involved in his work. He drunkenly confesses to George that his misogyny comes from experiences with his [[AlcoholicParent alcoholic abusive mother]], whom he eventually murdered by [[StaircaseTumble pushing her down a flight of stairs]].
* AlcoholicParent: John Egan is a HeManWomanHater who refuses to have women even tangentially involved in his work. He drunkenly confesses to George that his misogyny comes from experiences with his alcoholic [[AbusiveParent abusive mother]], whom he eventually murdered by [[StaircaseTumble pushing her down a flight of stairs]].
* AlcoholicParent: John Egan is a HeManWomanHater who refuses to have women even tangentially involved in his work. He drunkenly confesses to George that his misogyny comes from experiences with his alcoholic [[AbusiveParent abusive mother]], whom he eventually murdered by [[StaircaseTumble pushing her down a flight of stairs]].
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* StaircaseTumble: John Egan is a HeManWomanHater who refuses to have women even tangentially involved in his work. He drunkenly confesses to George that his misogyny comes from experiences with his [[AbusiveParent abusive mother]], whom he eventually murdered by pushing her down a flight of stairs.
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* {{Dramatization}}: This story is based on the actually robbery of the Southwest Bank in St. Louis in 1953. Many of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police officers and bank employees play themselves doing what they did during the actual robbery.
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* {{Dramatization}}: This story is based on the actually actual robbery of the Southwest Bank in St. Louis in 1953. Many of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police officers and bank employees play themselves doing what they did during the actual robbery.
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* GetawayDriver: George is recruited to fill this role in the CaperCrew. Just before the robbery, Egan feels betrayed by George and orders him to participate directly in the robbery while Willy drives the car. This ends badly when Willy panics when the police arrive and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bugs out]], leaving his partners inside the bank.
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* {{Dramatization}}: This story is based on the actually robbery of the Southwest Bank in St. Louis in 1953. Many of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police officers and bank employees play themselves doing what they did during the actual robbery.
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* NoodleIncident: Whatever it was George did that got him and Ann expelled from college.
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* WouldHitAGirl: The [[HeManwomanHater misogynistic]] John Egan throws Ann off the fire escape because he is afraid she might take what she knows about TheHeist to the police.
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* HeManWomanHater: John Egan, as the result of growing with an [[AlcoholicParent alcoholic]] [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]], despises and distrusts all women. He insists that all of his crew have no involvement with women while TheHeist is happening. When he discovers that George has let slip details of the job to Ann, he throws her off the fire escape.
* HumanShield: Egan forces his way out of the bank, using a teller as a human shield, but is shot down by the police.
* NeverGoingBackToPrison: Gino is paranoid about about going back to prison. When he realizes he is trapped in the bank, he suffers a VillainousBreakdown and [[AteHisGun eats his gun]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When the police surround the bank, Willy panics and drives off leaving his partners inside the bank.
* HumanShield: Egan forces his way out of the bank, using a teller as a human shield, but is shot down by the police.
* NeverGoingBackToPrison: Gino is paranoid about about going back to prison. When he realizes he is trapped in the bank, he suffers a VillainousBreakdown and [[AteHisGun eats his gun]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When the police surround the bank, Willy panics and drives off leaving his partners inside the bank.
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''The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery'' (also called ''The St. Louis Bank Robbery'') is a 1959 heist film, directed by Charles Guggenheim and starring Creator/SteveMcQueen as a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery.
George Fowler is introduced to a gang planning to rob a bank in St. Louis that they expect will have $100,000 on hand on an upcoming Friday. George is drawn into the plan as the gang's driver by Gino, an old girlfriend's older brother. As the gang goes about its planning, George and Gino have to find a way to live for the next two weeks and they turn to Gino's sister, Ann, for help. George is hoping to go back to college and the money he would make would go a long way to helping him do that. Not trusting George to keep his nerve, the gang's leader John Egan moves him to the inside, but the robbery doesn't go off as planned.
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* AteHisGun: After the bank robbery goes pear-shaped, Gino tries to escape. Finding there is no way out, and having vowed he was NeverGoingBackToPrison, he puts his gun his mouth and kills himself.
* BankRobbery: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* TheCaper: John Egan assembles a crew to rob the Southwest Bank in St. Louis.
* SpitefulSpit: After being shot by the police and disarmed, the cops ask Egan how many others are inside the bank. His response is to say "Go to hell!" and spit at them.
* SawnOffShotgun: Egan carries a sawn-off pump action shotgun during the bank robbery.
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''The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery'' (also called ''The St. Louis Bank Robbery'') is a 1959 heist film, directed by Charles Guggenheim and starring Creator/SteveMcQueen as a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery.
George Fowler is introduced to a gang planning to rob a bank in St. Louis that they expect will have $100,000 on hand on an upcoming Friday. George is drawn into the plan as the gang's driver by Gino, an old girlfriend's older brother. As the gang goes about its planning, George and Gino have to find a way to live for the next two weeks and they turn to Gino's sister, Ann, for help. George is hoping to go back to college and the money he would make would go a long way to helping him do that. Not trusting George to keep his nerve, the gang's leader John Egan moves him to the inside, but the robbery doesn't go off as planned.
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* AteHisGun: After the bank robbery goes pear-shaped, Gino tries to escape. Finding there is no way out, and having vowed he was NeverGoingBackToPrison, he puts his gun his mouth and kills himself.
* BankRobbery: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* TheCaper: John Egan assembles a crew to rob the Southwest Bank in St. Louis.
* SpitefulSpit: After being shot by the police and disarmed, the cops ask Egan how many others are inside the bank. His response is to say "Go to hell!" and spit at them.
* SawnOffShotgun: Egan carries a sawn-off pump action shotgun during the bank robbery.
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