One of my favorite films of the 70s is William Friedkin's The Brink's Job. It is a
great comedy loaded with a lot of familiar character players and it's jus great
fun. This fil Blueprint For Robbery takes the same story with a far different and more
serious treatment.
If you've seen The Brink's Job you'll recognize quite a bit from the plot and some
of the characters. The cast here isn't as well known as the other, but Bill Friedkin had quite a bit more budget to work with.
As in the other a gang is assembled all with a different skill set. The details of the
caper itself follow closely with the Friedkin film. And two of the gang is looking to double cross the others.
J. Pat O'Malley who played a lot of winsome Irish character plays an old time
safecracker. Robert Wilkie who played mostly villains in his career is the detective
who solves the crime. A young Marion Ross has a marvelous bit as a woman
seeking advice from Jay Barney who is one of the gang disguised as a priest
visiting O'Malley in prison.
Blueprint For Robbery is a B picture from Paramount playing the bottom half of double bills in1961. If yo saw this with whatever feature Paramount was showing you got your money's worth.
