bank robbery theme
The crime of stealing from a bank (or comparable venue) by physically gaining entry to its facilities and unlawfully removing large amounts of money or valuables, is featured. Bank-like outfits include other venues that have vaults, for example casinos or Fort Knox.
Notes
In real life most bank robberies are made at gunpoint, i.e., by threatening bank employees with violence. In fiction (more than reality) there are sometimes clever schemes to gain entry clandestinely, for example by tunneling in during off-hours, or using deception. The latter is technically a case of "burglary" when violence is not used, but is categorized as "bank robbery" for convenience. This definition may well (and rightly should) be revisited in the future.
Examples
In talesoftheunexpected5x06 "The Moles", two old friends whose business faced financial ruin hatched a clever plan to tunnel their way into a certain bank vault from an antique shop adjacent to it.
37 total · 1 choice · 8 major · 28 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahp4x33 | choice | Mr. Logan managed cleverly to rob the bank of $10,000, although he returned it minus the $200. In his monologue, Alfred Hitchcock feigned be a bank teller who had unwittingly been subjected to a bank robbery. |
| ahh1x26 | major | Oscar is a bank teller and gets training to deal with hold-ups. Oscar and Bill stages a bank robbery, but Oscar double crosses and shoots Bill. |
| ahh2x31 | major | Not long after being released from the state pen, Howard donned a fedora and fake mustache and pulled off a daring daylight robbery of $15,000 from a bank messenger on the employee's way out of the bank. He was later confronted over this matter by a police detective and blackmailed into staying with his detested wife. |
| ahp3x04 | major | People assumed that the recently paroled bank robber Jackie was hiding $150,000 in loot. |
| ahp3x07 | major | Joe, Madge, and Maxie had perpetrated a bank heist 10 years ago. |
| ahp6x21 | major | The "tax office" Erine held up was, for all intents and purposes, a bank. |
| movie: Around the World in 80 Days (1956) | major | Inspector Fix pursued Phileas Fogg relentlessly thinking Mr. Fogg the thief that had robbed the Bank of England of £55,000. |
| movie: Bonnie and Clyde (1967) | major | The Bonnie and Clyde gang robbed a number of banks. |
| talesoftheunexpected5x06 | major | Old friends Edward and George hatched a plot to dig a tunnel to reach a bank's vault. |
| ahh2x10 | minor | George spoke of his past involvement in a bank robbery in Newark. |