He plays a teller who learns that his bank will be robbed, so he puts aside a whole bunch of money for himself knowing that it will just be lumped in with the real robber’s take, as far as the bank and the police are concerned. Pulling a job from the inside isn’t always a good idea, but Elliott Gould shows us that it can work if the inside man isn’t connected to the outside men in any way. Elliott Gould Takes Advantage of His Situation, in “The Silent Partner” (1978) We consider the plan foolproof despite the group’s ultimate downfall, and still count the job as a relative success (compared to most foiled heists in other movies) due to the very rare and circumstantial reason that they were caught.ĥ.
Instead the film involves former army personnel who are deemed corrupt in some way or another who are brought together to lend their specific military expertise towards a foolproof bank heist plot. Of course, “Kelly’s Heroes” wasn’t the first film to feature a group of soldiers-turned-bank robbers, but it’s still quite different from “The League of Gentlemen,” which isn’t set during wartime. Army-Trained Crew, in “The League of Gentlemen” (1960)
