Tunneling Jewel Heists of $10 Mil: Not Just In the Movies!

[Pink Freud]

Hmmm....where do you suppose they got this idea? https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... wn-la-gold

[edwin drood]

Perhaps they got the idea from Arthur Conan Doyle. His Sherlock Holmes short story, The Red-headed League, concerns the theft of gold from a London bank by tunneling into the bank from the basement of a nearby store. The same story was also the inspiration for the 1971 Baker Street robbery in which a Lloyd's bank in London was tunneled into from a shop 40 meters away.

[seattleblue]

Rififi (1955) one of the finest heist movies ever made and unquestionably the greatest heist movie that's difficult to access.
This is the film people don't know they need to see.
Jules Dassin was a master. The heist scene in Rififi is exquisite. Exquisite.

If anyone wants a link
https://archive.org/details/rififi-1955

later Sexy Beast had this plot element