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In 1971, a group of thieves broke into the safe deposit boxes at lloyds bank on baker street in london and stole more than 500,000 british pounds in cash and jewelry. Mark thomas in september 1971, thieves tunneled into the vault of a bank in londons baker street and looted safe deposit boxes of cash and jewelry worth over three million pounds. The wise man, a short story by donal ryan the irish times. Our story on may 7, 1903, a group of four men founded the yuma county bank located in wray, colorado. The bank job is also the first proper jason statham movie since his. I assume, having never heard of this story, the part about the actual robbery is true however, at the end of the movie there are some brief postsctripts telling what happened after the robbery. According to the producers, this film is intended to reveal the truth for the first time, although it includes. Based on a true story, brags the bank job before diving into the clear.
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