| Money Movers | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | Bruce Beresford |
| Screenplay by | Bruce Beresford |
| Based on | The Money Movers by Devon Minchin |
| Produced by | Matt Carroll |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Don McAlpine |
| Edited by | William M. Anderson |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Roadshow Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | A$536,861[1][2] |
| Box office | A$330,000 (Australia) |
Money Movers is a 1978 Australian crime action drama film[3] written and directed by Bruce Beresford. The film was based on the 1972 novel The Money Movers by Devon Minchin, founder of Metropolitan Security Services.[4] 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 when A$280,000 was stolen from Metropolitan Security Services' offices by bandits impersonating policemen.[5]
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."[5]
- ^ Scott Murray, "Money Movers", Australian Film 1978-1992, Oxford Uni Press, p42
- ^ "Production Report", Cinema Papers, Oct-Nov 1978 p136
- ^ Australian movies
- ^ Let's Start All Over Again Archived 20 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Senator Nick Minchin
- ^ a b Byrnes, Paul (nd). "Money Movers 1979". Australian Screen. Retrieved 28 August 2010.