# ID this movie: B&W crime thriller 1960s
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-b-w-crime-thriller-1960s/671933
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 22, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-b-w-crime-thriller-1960s/671933 "2013-10-22T15:07:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-b-w-crime-thriller-1960s/671933/1 "2013-10-22T15:07:08Z")
Years ago I watched a late night movie, coming into it about halfway through.
The premise was two criminals somehow managed to get themselves locked in a building over a weekend, so they could rob the place and leave before Monday.
However, they ended up trying to kill each other, running around inside the building all weekend.
On Monday morning, they changed into civilian clothes and simply blended in with returning workers.
I thought Charles Bronson was in this, but I’m afraid I’m wrong, as his bio doesn’t show anything that looks like this film.
Sketchy, I know. Anyone?
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### Author:  [@sideshowkar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sideshowkar)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-b-w-crime-thriller-1960s/671933/2 "2013-10-22T18:58:02Z")
I googled “thieves locked in a building bronson” and found a movie called Farewell Friend that seems to meet the description.
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### Author:  [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-b-w-crime-thriller-1960s/671933/3 "2013-10-22T19:01:33Z")
What is this new fangled thing called “Google” you speak of??
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-b-w-crime-thriller-1960s/671933/4 "2013-10-22T19:23:09Z")
> [@spifflog](#):
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> What is this new fangled thing called “Google” you speak of??
:golfclap: :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-b-w-crime-thriller-1960s/671933/5 "2013-10-22T19:27:34Z")
> [@spifflog](#):
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> What is this new fangled thing called “Google” you speak of??
[Here.](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Google)
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### Author:  [@Tante\_Dillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tante_Dillie)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-b-w-crime-thriller-1960s/671933/6 "2013-10-22T20:29:21Z")
There’s a movie called _Trapped_ starring James Brolin as a man who gets locked inside a department store. However, IIRC, his antagonist is a pack of vicious Doberman guard dogs, not a fellow human. I mention it on the off chance it might be what you’re looking for.
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### Author:  [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-b-w-crime-thriller-1960s/671933/7 "2013-10-23T20:53:11Z")
Thanks **Tante** , not dogs! But that sounds kind of cool.
Farewell Friend does sound like the OP description, **sideshowkar** but for some reason it doesn’t look at all like I remember. I’ve checked this one before. Youtube has it, but what I looked today at was not resonating.
Thanks so far!
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### Author:  [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-b-w-crime-thriller-1960s/671933/8 "2013-10-23T21:08:56Z")
**Spiflog, etv78, and lost4life** : Sorry I wasted your time. Please put me on ignore.
:dubious:
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2013, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-b-w-crime-thriller-1960s/671933/9 "2013-10-24T01:52:22Z")
**campp** , my post was in response to **Spiflog** , we’re cool. 😃
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### Author:  [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2013, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-b-w-crime-thriller-1960s/671933/10 "2013-10-24T13:48:02Z")
Thank you
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### Author:  [@tiescore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiescore)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-b-w-crime-thriller-1960s/671933/11 "2013-10-24T18:11:24Z")
Only half sounds like you describe, but could you be conflating How To Steal A Million (Peter O’Toole, Audrey Hepburn) with a Charles Bronson action flick (dozing in front of the tube late at night will do that). In HTSAM O’Toole and Hepburn lock themselves in a museum to steal back a forgery Hepburn’s father sold to them (if my memory of the plot is right). It was colorized though, and not much trying to kill each other in it.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2013, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-b-w-crime-thriller-1960s/671933/12 "2013-10-24T22:28:32Z")
Not the movie the OP described but there’s also _Career Opportunities_. If you’re going to get locked inside a building with someone after hours, [Jennifer Connelly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdGvSBdyVHk) is the way to go.