Cinco homens roubam um trem em Utah com 10 milhões de dólares em ouro. Eles vão para Los Angeles em 3 caminhões na esperança de se encontrar com sua bela cúmplice e deixar o país.Cinco homens roubam um trem em Utah com 10 milhões de dólares em ouro. Eles vão para Los Angeles em 3 caminhões na esperança de se encontrar com sua bela cúmplice e deixar o país.Cinco homens roubam um trem em Utah com 10 milhões de dólares em ouro. Eles vão para Los Angeles em 3 caminhões na esperança de se encontrar com sua bela cúmplice e deixar o país.
- Direção
- Roteiristas
- Artistas
- Trooper No. 2
- (as Charles Conrad)
- Narrator
- (não creditado)
Avaliações em destaque
Plunder Road is a nice little low-budget noir/crime/drama film. While I enjoyed every second of the movie, the highlight for me has to be the robbery that takes up at least the first 15 minutes of the film's 72 minute runtime. Similar to Rififi, the robbery is carried out almost entirely in silence. The plan is well thought out and executed. The coordination between the five guys makes for a great watch. Director Hubert Cornfield expertly filmed this section of the movie. He wisely included almost every detail - from the masks to the gassing of the guards to the handling of the explosives. Some of the camera angles Cornfield chose helped to increase the excitement of the whole thing. I also think that filming the heist in pouring rain was a wise decision. The rain added even more suspense and atmosphere. While I'm not overly familiar with most of the cast (Elisha Cook, Jr, being the exception), they all give nice performances. I think I was most impressed with Stafford Repp as Roly Adams, but that may only be because he's familiar to me having played Chief O'Hara on Batman in the 60s. Plunder Road's ending is appropriately bleak. As with most good film noir, none of the characters comes out unscathed.
The story is pretty familiar because caper movies were VERY popular during that era. A group of masked robbers bump off a shipment of gold on a train and their planning is meticulous. However, true to most caper films, things start to fall apart during the getaway. The gang is split into teams and one by one, things start to happen to the teams.
Overall, a well directed and interesting cheap film noir flick-- worth seeing if you like the genre and quite engaging. Not among the best of its type (such as "Asphalt Jungle", "The Killing", "Rififi" or "Grand Slam")....but still quite nice.
Gene Raymond and Elisha Cook Jr. are known actors to classic film buffs but the rest of the cast may not be too familiar. There is no one star in this film anyway but all give good performances, particularly Raymond, the most interesting member of the gang.
The weak link of the film, at least to me, was the ending...but I give it points for originality. Overall, the story was a simple one, but oddly told. I say that because the important things that happened in the film (the arrests of the criminals, for one thing) would be glossed over quickly while minor things would be detailed longer than necessary. Despite that, the film was interesting thanks to good dialog, realism on the part of the characters and the short running time (73 minutes). Hope to see it on DVD some day.
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- CuriosidadesFinal cinema film of Wayne Morris (I). NOTE: He appeared in Buffalo Gun (1961), which was released in 1961, but it was shot in 1957, before this film. For the remainder of his career he appeared on television.
- Erros de gravaçãoThe trucks are fitted with California registration plates all along the 500 miles they travel. California plates with arouse immediate suspicion with the police in roadblocks in all the states they had to pass.
- Citações
Eddie Harris: [Commando and Frankie laugh after pulling off the heist] Before we start congratulating ourselves let's remember we've still got 900 miles to go, 900 miles to every cop between here and the coast, and you laugh it up like a couple of clowns.
- Versões alternativasThe original release included narration by Michael Fox, Douglas Bank and Stacy Graham which was later removed.
- ConexõesFeatured in A Night at the Movies: Cops & Robbers and Crime Writers (2013)
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- Plunder Road
- Locações de filme
- Kling Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Califórnia, EUA(Studio. This was formerly the Charlie Chaplin Studios.)
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- Tempo de duração1 hora 12 minutos
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- Proporção
- 2.35 : 1