Michael Caine in the ‘Italian Job’
News this morning of a good old fashioned ‘heist’ at the Millennium Dome. Raiders drove into the Dome in a JCB / bulldozer (one of those large earth moving lumps) through an outer wall and indicated a keen interest in the half a billion $ worth of De Beers diamonds on display. The plan was then to escape on a speedboat bopping up and down on the adjacent Thames.
Unfortunately, the authorities were waiting for them dressed in various guises (cleaners, etc) and all were arrested – including the speedboat getaway driver and other ‘ancillary’ people (police frequency listeners, etc).
The whole thing probably organised by some “diamond” geezer in an East End pub…how much do you think the theives are going to sell the movie rights for?
I think you’re right Duke, the whole escapade has East End / Essex written all over it. They were apparently wearing gas masks and flak jackets and throwing smoke bombs all over the place while the speedboat was revving – anticipate a screenplay to be drafted by nightfall.
Seems De Beers replaced the real diamonds with fakes just yesterday so someone obviously “grassed to the filth” - what did Bob Hoskins say in ‘The Long Good Friday’……“There’s goin’ to be an Errruption!”.
Coldie – nah, but I think he’s got the soundtrack covered: “Going loco down in Acapulco………” (Revisited).
A classic! I read somewhere that in rehearsals one of the stunt drivers managed to do a full barrel roll in the water pipe. When he tried it again with the cameras running, he put the Mini on its roof.
Nah, a job like this calls for Austin Powers IMoM to burst in with a platoon of SAS commandos (armed with anachronistic L1A1 rifles, better to look good than be correct) while Johnny Rivers rips through Secret Agent Man.