The Bank Job

The Bank Job is a 2008 British crime film written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, directed by Roger Donaldson, and starring Jason Statham, based on the 1971 Baker Street robbery in central London, from which the money and valuables stolen were never recovered. The producers allege that the story was prevented from being told in 1971 because of a DNotice government gagging request, allegedly to protect a prominent member of the British Royal Family. According to the producers, this film is intended to reveal the truth for the first time, although it includes significant elements of fiction.

The British Security Services MI5 have taken interest in a safe deposit box located in a bank on Londons Baker Street. It belongs to a black militant gangster, Michael X, and contains compromising photos of Princess Margaret, which he is keeping as insurance to keep the British authorities off his back. Martine, an exmodel who is romantically involved with an MI5 agent, is caught smuggling drugs into the country, and to avoid going to jail she makes a deal with the authorities in which she agrees to retrieve the photos.Martine approaches her friend Terry, a struggling car salesman with criminal contacts, and tells him if he can assemble the gang to help her rob the bank hell be richly rewarded, though she doesnt tell him about the photos in the deposit box. Terry recruits a small team, including one of his own workers, Eddie, to serve as the lookout, and Dave, a porn actor who once made films for Lew Vogel, a gangster whom Dave happens to run into outside the bank before the robbery. ........

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