Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA "confidence couple" pose as husband and wife while attempting a bank heist.A "confidence couple" pose as husband and wife while attempting a bank heist.A "confidence couple" pose as husband and wife while attempting a bank heist.
Robert H. Harris
- Zimmer
- (as Robert Harris)
Florenz Ames
- Dutch Paulmeyer
- (uncredited)
Louise Arthur
- Alice Loxley
- (uncredited)
Roscoe Ates
- Falkenburg
- (uncredited)
Valentin de Vargas
- Gas Station Attendant
- (uncredited)
Melody Gale
- Bitsy
- (uncredited)
Terry Kelman
- Bennie Loxley
- (uncredited)
James Nolan
- Police Sgt. Waldo Harris
- (uncredited)
Voltaire Perkins
- Flood's Attorney
- (uncredited)
Jack Shea
- Joe Stancil
- (uncredited)
Ray Teal
- Real Estate Broker
- (uncredited)
Histoire
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- AnecdotesThe radio announcement during the BBQ dinner scene was made through a Zenith Trans-Oceanic 600 Series Portable Radio. These radios were known for their heavy-duty, high-quality construction and their performance as shortwave receivers.
- GaffesWhen Frank Harper (Rory Calhoun) is driving in the opening scenes, camera views of him from in front of the car through the windshield show the car to have no rearview mirror. Later, the scene shifts showing the driver from the rear, and the rearview mirror has appeared with Calhoun's face clearly visible in it.
Removing the rear-view mirror is a filming technique; it is not considered a Goof.
Commentaire en vedette
Adapted, like Stanley Kubrick's more celebrated 1956 crime movie THE KILLING, from a novel by underrated thriller writer Lionel White, THE BIG CAPER is an economical, pacy minor 50s crime movie which, unfortunately, somewhat loses its grip and falls away on the home strait to deliver less than it initially promises. Trapped in an ever-increasing spiral of gambling losses, Frank (Rory Calhoun, taking a welcome break from the saddle) sells his now semi-respectable gangster boss Flood (James Gregory) the idea of bankrolling a 'big caper'. The sleepy Californian coastal town of San Felipe is home to a bank which holds the substantial payroll for a nearby army base, and appears just ripe for the pickings for a team of professional hoods. Flood stakes the plan, and, after buying up the local gas station (an ideal stakeout locale for the bank located across the street), Frank sets up home with Flood's moll Kay (Mary Costa), aiming to win the trust of the local populace based on a seemingly legitimate veneer of domestic normality. Biding their time, Frank and Kay ingratiate themselves with the local 'square' population as they await the arrival of Flood's specialist team. But when this outfit includes an alcoholic pyromaniac, an inveterate womaniser, a psychotically loyal bodyguard and a kingpin who is beginning, rightfully, to suspect that his girl wants out from her previous lifestyle, the seemingly perfect caper begins to look fatally flawed. Swift and punchy, and betraying the best of its paperback origins in swift, sharp characterisation and abrupt narrative gear changes, this benefits from a nicely embittered change-of-pace lead performance from Calhoun (who, in forsaking his cowboy boots and spurs here, suggests he would have made an effectively downbeat noir actor) and a surprising sense of well-oiled coiled-spring menace from the underrated Gregory. Although a tad schematic in its paralleling of the Eisenhower-era nuclear family with Flood's dysfunctional criminal one, and running out of steam on the way to a regrettably contrived ending which involves a Damascene conversion which doesn't quite convince (a more cynical remake would probably put that right, though), this is a diverting slice of 50s criminality which seems, like much of the quirky crime roster from this period, to have slipped off the generic radar in recent years. Worth a look, even if it can't hold a candle to Kubrick's more celebrated Lionel White adaptation from the same period.
- noir guy
- 21 avr. 2002
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- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Sites officiels
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Den stora kuppen
- Lieux de tournage
- 1400 North Hayworth Avenue, West Hollywood, Californie, États-Unis(Hollywood Rivera Apartments where Kay meets Flood, Roy, Harry and Doll)
- société de production
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- Durée1 heure 24 minutes
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By what name was The Big Caper (1957) officially released in India in English?
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