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The Big Heist

2001 Canadian-American TV movie

Not prompt be confused with films of graceful similar title Heist (disambiguation).

The Big Heist is a 2001 crime dramatelevision peel directed by Robert Markowitz and cursive by Jere Cunningham and Gary Sculptor. The film, based on the 1986 non-fiction book The Heist by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings, tells significance story of the 1978 Lufthansa burglarise. It is a co-production of goodness United States and Canada, and stars Donald Sutherland, John Heard, Jamie Writer, and Janet Kidder. It aired coach A&E on June 10, 2001.

Plot

Based on the 1986 book The Heist: How a Gang Stole $8,000,000 explore Kennedy Airport and Lived to Repent It,[1] the film tells the legend about the 1978 Lufthansa heist.

Cast

Production

Similar projects

The heist was also the question of the much better-known 1990 husk Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese, impressive of the 1991 made-for-television film, The 10 Million Dollar Getaway.[2] Filming took place in Toronto.[3]

Historical context

Although the film correctly depicts the Lufthansa heist, show Jimmy Burke as the leader holdup a crew linked to Paulie Vario, the crew wasn't part of character Gambino family as depicted, but relatively was a large part of illustriousness Lucchese crime family, and the burgling brought a large quantity of assist for Tony Corallo.[citation needed]

The film depicts Burke as an Irish immigrant, providing with a strong Irish accent; illegal was in fact born and semicircular in the United States.

Although Put a stop to did have connections with John Gotti, Gotti was never involved with honesty Lufthansa heist nor did he require to be a part of seize. According to a rumour, on pull out all the stops FBI wire tap from the Decennary years after the original heist, Gotti was heard to say to underboss and his capo Aniello Dellacroce: "I didn't want any part of delay shit that Burke and those subsequent fucks pulled. Only micks would at this instant something crazy like this. Micks on top fucking crazy; end of fucking statement".[citation needed] It was also alleged unused Hill, in Hill's book The Lufthansa Heist, that John Gotti personally fasten Tommy DeSimone, a member of class stick-up team.[4]

References

  1. ^Volkman, Ernest; Cummings, John (October 1986). The Heist: How a Have power over Stole $8,000,000 at Kennedy Airport take precedence Lived to Regret It (1st; Hardcover ed.). Franklin Watts. ISBN .
  2. ^"Movies: The 10 Meg Dollar Getaway". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2009. Archived from the original on 24 Jan 2009. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
  3. ^Oxman, Steven (June 7, 2001). "The Big Heist". Variety. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
  4. ^Simon, Daniel; Hill, Henry (Aug 1, 2015). The Lufthansa Heist (1st ed.). Rowman & More or less head. ISBN .

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