From plain old money to rare books and even an ancient coronation stone, there\u0027s noting criminals won\u0027t try to make off with in the movies
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ore airport tie-ins in this excellent heist flick from Toronto director Allan Ungar. Josh Duhamel stars as Robert Whiteman, a Canadian bank robber with a polite demeanour, a penchant for disguises, and a habit of travelling across the country to do his work, racking up so many air miles that he became known as The Flying Bandit.
It’s part of a small but worthy collection of Canadian true-crime movies featuring daring, dashing robbers, a sub-genre that includes Richard Farnsworth in 1982’sHow’s this for just-like-a-movie? When four students decided to steal millions of dollars in rare books from a university library in Kentucky in 2004, they took inspiration from.
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