harry and walter go to new york

Director: mark rydell

Actor: james caan,elliott gould,michael caine,diane keaton

Data Published: Thu Aug 19 1976

Genres: Comedy,Crime

Key Words: character names in title,forenames in title,seven word title,vaudeville,heist

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074608/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_and_Walter_Go_to_New_York

Description: Harry and Walter Go to New York is a movie starring James Caan, Elliott Gould, and Michael Caine. Two hopelessly-out-of-their-class conmen attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the nineteenth century. They gain the enmity of...

Plot: Harry Dighby (Caan) and Walter Hill (Gould) are struggling vaudevillians who are sent to jail when Dighby is caught robbing audience members. They become roommates to a cultured, wealthy, and charming bank robber named Adam Worth (Caine). Worth plans to rob the Lowell Bank and Trust, both to avenge himself on the bank manager who had arranged his capture and because his ego cannot resist the temptation of robbing a bank reputed to be perfectly secure. Though in jail, he procures detailed diagrams of the bank's security systems. A reforming newspaperwoman named Lissa Chestnut (Keaton) visits their cell. During her visit Dighby and Hill manage to photograph the bank plans with her camera, then burn the originals. They break out of prison the next day at the same time as Worth is paroled. They meet in New York City; and, by force, Worth manages to extract a copy of the photographed plans from them. Dighby, Hill, and Chestnut then band with Chestnut's team of do-gooders to race against Worth and his professional bank robbing squad to see who can rob the Lowell Bank and Trust first.