Cinema: Calling Howard Hawks

COPS AND ROBBERS

Directed by ARAM AVAKIAN Screenplay by DONALD E. WESTLAKE

"It only takes one good idea ..." So runs the old American saw about the old American dream of overnight wealth. Cops and Robbers is about a pair of the former (attractively played by Joseph Bologna and Cliff Gorman) who turn into the latter in order to lift themselves out of their installment-plan lives as neighbors in a Queens culdesac. Although they fail to score on their prime target, a vaultful of bearer bonds in a Wall Street brokerage house, they finally...

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