The Bank Job - March 2008

Inspired by the infamous 1971 robbery that took place at the Lloyds Bank in Marylebone London, The bank Job stars Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows. The highly-charged heist thriller tautly interweaves high-level corruption, murder and sexual scandal in 1970s England.

A car dealer with dodgy past and new family, Terry (Statham) has always avoided major-league scams. But when Martine (Burrows), a beautiful model from his old neighborhood, offers him a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Banker Street, Terry recognizes the opportunity of a lifetime. Martine targets a roomful of safe deposit bozes worth millions in cash ans jewelry. But Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes true treasure trove on dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal that spans London's criminal underworld, the highest echelons of the British government, and the Royal Family itself... the true story of a heist gone wrong... in all the right ways.

Directed by Roger Donaldson
Produced by David Alper
Written by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, George McIndoe and Aaron Shuster
Release date: March 7, 2008
Genre: Thriller

Casts:

• Jason Statham as Terry
• Saffron Burrows as Martine
• Stephen Campbell Moore as Kevin
• James Faulkner as Guy Singer
• Craig Fairbrass as Nick Barton
• Daniel Mays as Dave
• Alki David as Bambas
• Michael Jibson as Eddie

Based on the true story of the 1971 Baker Street bank robbery which was prevented from being told for over thirty years because of a Government gagging order. The real story of how one of the biggest robberies in British history took place with no arrests ever made nor money ever recovered.