Money Movers
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| Directed by | Bruce Beresford |
| Produced by | Matt Carroll |
| Written by | Bruce Beresford |
| Based on | Novel by Devon Minchin |
| Starring |
Terence Donovan Tony Bonner Ed Devereaux Charles 'Bud' Tingwell Candy Raymond Jeanie Drynan Bryan Brown Lucky Grills |
| Cinematography | Don McAlpine |
| Edited by | William M. Anderson |
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| Distributed by | Roadshow Entertainment |
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Release date
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1978 |
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Running time
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92 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | A$536,861 |
| Box office | A$330,000 (Australia) |
Money Movers is a 1978 Australian crime action drama film directed by Bruce Beresford. The film was based on the book Money Movers by Devon Minchin, founder of Metropolitan Security Services. The story deals loosely with two real-life events, the 1970 Sydney Armoured Car Robbery where A$500,000 was stolen from a Mayne Nickless armoured van, and a 1970 incident where A$280,000 was stolen from Metropolitan Security Services' offices by bandits impersonating policemen.
Money Movers is "one of the few films of the 1970s that deal with crime and police corruption as an entrenched state of being, and one of the earliest to embrace extremely violent action."
An armoured payroll truck owned by Darcy's Security Services is robbed and the driver, ex-policeman Dick Martin, is removed from armoured cars and put onto night patrols. The robbers are double crossed by crime boss Jack Henderson whose henchman Dino kills all the robbers.
Lionel Darcy, head of the company, suspects a major robbery is being planned but is unaware that all the culprits are employed by the company. He asks former employee Mindel Seagers to look into newcomer to the firm, Leo Bassett. Jack Henderson discovers a robbery is being planned by Eric Jackson, a former speedway driver and a Senior Supervisor with Darcy's, and his brother Brian Jackson who also works as a guard for Darcy's as an armoured truck driver. When Eric Jackson breaks into Bassett's apartment, Henderson's men kidnap him and cut off the little toe on his left foot with a pair of bolt cutters in their attempt to force him to work for him.
Dick Martin and Leo Bassett foil the planned robbery.
After making The Getting of Wisdom Bruce Bersford signed a contract with the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) to make two films in two years. He wanted to make a movie that was in complete contrast with his last movie, and had written a script called The Ferryman. However the SAFC did not want to make it and they offered him a number of other projects instead. Beresford decided to adapt a novel by Devon Minchin, who founded Metropolitan Security Services in 1954. Beresford worked with MSS for two months doing research.
Shooting took six weeks in February and March 1978. Although the film was based in Sydney, it was shot mostly in the studios of the SAFC and at various locations in Adelaide, notably the Rowley Park Speedway, with some scenes also filmed in Sydney. This is seen with vehicles regularly jumping between South Australia's black on a white background license plates and the NSW version of black on yellow.
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