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Six Bridges to Cross: Directed by Joseph Pevney. With Tony Curtis, George Nader, Julie Adams, Jay C. Flippen. The emotional story of a lifelong friendship between a Boston rookie cop and a young street-wise delinquent.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Joseph Pevney
- 1955-01-29
Six Bridges to Cross or 6 Bridges to Cross is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Tony Curtis, George Nader and Julie Adams. [2] Six Bridges to Cross is based upon the famous 1950 Great Brink's Robbery of Boston, Massachusetts in which the thieves made off with roughly $2.5 million.
- $1.8 million (US)
- Aaron Rosenberg
- Universal Pictures
Six Bridges to Cross (1955) is the first film based on the robbery. Officially, it is an adaptation of the story "They Stole $2,500,000 Million–And Got Away With It" by Joseph F. Dinneen, a condensed version of Dinneen's 1954 novel The Anatomy of a Crime; A Startling Parallel to the Fantastic $2,500,000 Brinks Robbery .
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Six Bridges to Cross. In the 1930s, newly minted Boston policeman Eddie Gallagher (George Nader) breaks up a robbery by a group of hooligans led by Jerry Florea (Sal Mineo). Though Eddie...
- Joseph Pevney
- Crime, Drama
- Tony Curtis
This film is a crime drama that traces the strange relationship of a street smart hoodlum (Tony Curtis) with a straight arrow cop over 20 years. The film starts out with Sal Mineo playing adolescent hoodlum Jerry Florea in 1933, robbing street vendors of fruit with his gang and doing some nighttime breaking and entering.
Director. Sydney Boehm. Screenplay. Follow the evolution of a small time juvenile delinquent hood to a big time racketeer. Based on the famous 1950 Brinks Robbery in Boston that netted the crooks $2.5 million. The story delves into the psychology of the perpetrators, as well as the intricate mechanics of the hold-up.
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