May 02, 1980 Directed by Bruce Beresford. With Terence Donovan, Tony Bonner, Ed Devereaux, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell. An armoured car company is the target of repeated heists. Company leadership is enforcing new measures in order to tighten security. The biggest danger of a new heist lies from within the company's own ranks. In Money Movers, you have to control 2 brothers concurrently and help them to reach the exit in each of the levels which are full of switches, lasers, moving platforms and more. Have fun with Money Movers, a challenging puzzle platformer! If you like it, make sure to also check out its sequel, Money Movers 2.
In order to raise the money for his 'breakthrough' film Australian director dashed off the guaranteed audience pleaser masterminds a bank-vault heist that will potentially net his gang 20 million Australian dollars. The scheme predictably goes sour, but this conclusion is reached via a most unexpected fashion., best known to American audiences for his leading-man gig on the TV series Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo, is second billed as 'Dick Martin' (no, not the American TV-comic Dick Martin). Was based on a novel by Devon Minchin.
Running time92 minutesCountryAustraliaLanguageEnglishBudgetA$536,861Box officeA$330,000 (Australia)Money Movers is a 1978 Australian directed. The film was based on the book Money Movers by Devon Minchin, founder of Metropolitan Security Services. The story deals loosely with two real-life events, the 1970 Sydney Armoured Car Robbery where A$500,000 was stolen from a Mayne Nickless armoured van, and a 1970 incident where A$280,000 was stolen from Metropolitan Security Services' offices by bandits impersonating policemen.Money Movers is 'one of the few films of the 1970s that deal with crime and police corruption as an entrenched state of being, and one of the earliest to embrace extremely violent action.' Contents.Plot An armoured payroll truck owned by Darcy's Security Services is robbed and the driver, ex-policeman Dick Martin, is removed from armoured cars and put onto night patrols.
The robbers are double crossed by crime boss Jack Henderson whose henchman Dino kills all the robbers.Lionel Darcy, head of the company, suspects a major robbery is being planned but is unaware that all the culprits are employed by the company. He asks former employee Mindel Seagers to look into newcomer to the firm, Leo Bassett.
Jack Henderson discovers that a robbery is being planned by Eric Jackson, a former driver and a Senior Supervisor with Darcy's, his brother Brian Jackson who also works as a guard for Darcy's as an armoured truck driver, and Ed Gallagher, the supervisor of Darcy's counting house. Scott Murray, 'Money Movers', Australian Film 1978-1992, Oxford Uni Press, p42. 'Production Report', Cinema Papers, Oct-Nov 1978 p136. 20 February 2011 at the, Senator Nick Minchin. ^ Byrnes, Paul (nd). Australian Screen.
Retrieved 28 August 2010. ^ 20 December 2012 at accessed 17 October 2012. ^ David Stratton, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, 1980 p53., Money Movers.
13 February 2010 at the, Money Movers.Further reading. McFarlane, Brian.
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Film in Australia: an introduction London: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Murray, Scott. Australian film, 1978-1992: a survey of theatrical features: Vol. 2 London: Oxford University Press, 1993.External links. on. at Oz Movies.