Don't get me wrong due my low rating, because it was a far-fetched plot that should be in the series Mission: Impossible, wherever they did end up in a successful assignment, somehow it happens here in this TV movie which I did watch in 1983, even the skilled crew of Mission Impossible aren't able to do better, I have much respect by Henry Fonda and Leonard Nimoy, nonetheless I'm not so blind to accept this laughable offering, worst having the comic actor as Larry Hagman on the casting.
Mark Forbes (Henry Fonda) is a parole officer for 40 years and was notified over his forced retirement even he has so much to offer yet, he has 61 years old only, he stayed high disappointed by some many hard years and kicked out without mercy, meanwhile has a hearsay that a robbery's gang is planning a forthcoming armored cars convey a large shipping of gold bars through the streets to a nearby federal building, Mark Forbes envisages a payback on his superiors joint forces with the skilled gang, however he'll settle a flawless plan to got the gold from those armored cars, letting their commanders in dire straits aftermaths.
The Gang comprises, the expert explosive Tudor (Larry Hagman) the high technical in electronic Mitch (Leonard Spock Nimoy) and the driver Scat (James McEachin) the plan is cinematography, parodying an old jargon used to by newspapers in a robberies like that, the slow pace armored cars thorough in streets are an easy target for the thieves, worst they manage the route in a studio lot aiming for a blast action on the street in a controlled environment to display the robbery in smallest details.
Despite so many reviewers given highest ratings here, someone can figure out be treat a masterpiece or something, far away from it, a contrived robbery that happens only in movies, so much unrealistic and unworkable upon any point of view, therefore this picture is a facsimile from those European flicks made on the sixties and seventies, just a cheap entertainment!
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First watch: 1981 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 6.
