An early laugh in this film directed by Gower champion has a reference that will make you think of his Broadway musical "Hello Dolly!", rather obscure ten years after its Broadway opening, but amusing to those who get it. There's also the presence of Bibi Osterwald, Carol Channing's understudy, playing an amusingly eccentric supporting character. But for the most part, this caper comedy isn't very funny, and it takes an hour for the caper to the begin.
The story surrounds the theft of a bank. Not a bank robbery, but the actual lifting up of a trailer that is home to a bank in a shopping center (then known as a plaza), placed on a flatbed truck and take it into a warehouse where the circus like atmosphere has all the perpetrators (led by George C Scott and Joanna Cassidy) trying to get the darn thing open.
Decent supporting performances by Osterwald, Clifton James and Sorrell Brooke are minor saving graces to this fiasco which made right after the success of the same author's "The Hot Rock". Scott has a sneer on his face throughout that could be disgust as if he knows it's going to tank which it did. Its attempt to be wistful fails miserably, so their bank shot ends up being the title's second word with a different vowel.
The story surrounds the theft of a bank. Not a bank robbery, but the actual lifting up of a trailer that is home to a bank in a shopping center (then known as a plaza), placed on a flatbed truck and take it into a warehouse where the circus like atmosphere has all the perpetrators (led by George C Scott and Joanna Cassidy) trying to get the darn thing open.
Decent supporting performances by Osterwald, Clifton James and Sorrell Brooke are minor saving graces to this fiasco which made right after the success of the same author's "The Hot Rock". Scott has a sneer on his face throughout that could be disgust as if he knows it's going to tank which it did. Its attempt to be wistful fails miserably, so their bank shot ends up being the title's second word with a different vowel.