| The Great Riviera Bank Robbery | |
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| Directed by | Francis Megahy |
| Written by | Francis Megahy Bernie Cooper |
| Produced by | Martin McKeand |
| Starring | Ian McShane Warren Clarke Stephen Greif Christopher Malcolm |
| Cinematography | Peter Jessop |
| Edited by | Arthur Solomon |
| Music by | Stanley Myers |
| Distributed by | Incorporated Television Company |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £364,000 |
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery, also known as Dirty Money and Sewers of Gold, is a 1979 British heist film written and directed by Francis Megahy and starring Ian McShane, Warren Clarke, Stephen Greif and Christopher Malcolm. In the film, based on a bank robbery masterminded by Albert Spaggiari in 1976,[1] members of a neo-fascist group team up with professional criminals to rob the safe deposit vault of a bank in a French resort town.[2]
It is the British version of the French film Les Égouts du paradis, released the same year.
- ^ AFP (12 February 2018). "Suspected mastermind on trial for France's 'heist of the century'". www.theguardian. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
- ^ "The Great Riviera Bank Robbery > Overview". allmovie.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 28 December 2010.