THE HOT ROCK
Directed by PETER YATES Screenplay by WILLIAM GOLDMAN
Years ago, when Edmund Wilson wrote an acerbic essay on mystery novels, his title and his theme was "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" The same skepticism might be directed toward a subspecies of the mystery genre known as the caper story, wherein a skilled handful of professionals try to steal a certain invaluable object from a certain impregnable fortress. The trouble with such yarns is that they tend to be about mechanics, not people. Unable to believe in the characters,...
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