Cinema St. Louis and We Are Movie Geeks Hosting an Online Screening of THE GREAT ST. LOUIS BANK ROBBERY This Monday

Cinema St. Louis and We Are Movie Geeks will be hosting an Online Screening of THE GREAT ST. LOUIS BANK ROBBERY This Monday (April 20th) at 11am (CT). WAMG’s own Tom Stockman will be talking about the film on Facebook Live and talking about the differences between the movie and the real-life robbery and also his meeting with Mel Stein, the (then) 102-year old hero of The real Great St. Louis Bank Robbery. For more details go to the Facebook invite HERE

Join Cinema St. Louis for their free online movie club! Since we can’t watch a film together on the big screen, Cinema St. Louis invites you to come together to share our love of cinema from the comfort of your own home. Every other week Cinema St. Louis will select a film available on a streaming service and host the discussion on Facebook.

This week we turn our focus to a film with a St. Louis connection. “The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery” (1959), directed by Charles Guggenheim, stars Steve McQueen as a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery. Based on a 1953 robbery of Southwest Bank in St. Louis, the film was shot on location in 1958 with some members of the St. Louis Police Department, local residents, and bank employees playing the same parts they did in the actual robbery attempt.

Streaming on Amazon .

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