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Re: Re: Butterfly Labs CEO 25 Million USD Mail Fraud — A Concise Summary of Evidence
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Portnoy
on 21/09/2012, 02:30:46 UTC
Quote from: bitcoin.me on September 21, 2012, 02:25:59 AM
Quote from: Portnoy on September 21, 2012, 02:22:51 AM
Quote from: szuetam on September 21, 2012, 01:45:23 AM
Quote from: crazy_rabbit on September 20, 2012, 04:28:47 PM
This reminds me of that Woody Allen movie where they open a cookie shop next to a bank to set up cover while they tried to tunnel into the vault. Meanwhile the cookie shop takes off as a successful business and they are stuck in a quandary as to whether they should rob the bank or not...
What title it is?
I want to watch it. Smiley

I don't know about any Woody Allen movie like that but it sounds a lot like Larceny, Inc. (1942)
with Edward G. Robinson and lot of other talent. 

"Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers..."

I do recommend it.

Maybe Woody Allen did a remake of this. 

 

"Small time crooks"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196216/

Yup, thanks.  I just noticed this at the Larceny, Inc. page:

...It's a pretty ancient tale. Thieves getting into a store next to a bank in order to break through the wall into the vault. The first time I remember coming across it was in a Sherlock Holmes tale, "The Red Headed League," and I doubt it was original with Conan-Doyle. This is the earliest movie about such a caper that I'm aware of. But later there was "Big Deal on Madonna Street" and most recently Woody Allan's "Small Time Crooks," which duplicated some of the incidents as well as the general idea. (The thieves break open a water pipe while digging the tunnel; the original plan fizzles out when the phony business upstairs becomes an economic bonanza.) It's a well-done and highly entertaining comedy with the usual roster of Warners' stalwarts at their best. The kind of movie about which you can truly say, "They don't make 'em like that anymore."...