KETC | Living St. Louis | Bank Robbery

From KETC, LIVING ST. LOUIS Producer Patrick Murphy recounts the "Great St. Louis Bank Robbery" of 1953 at Southwest Bank. While it was in progress, the robbery drew a crowd of thousands of people. A movie was later made about the robbery, in which police officer Mel Stein played himself.

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[londy1887]

Nice report. Thanks for posting. Good background report on the foundation for an early McQueen vehicle.

[1985OldSkool]

Southwest Bank has since become M&I Bank, but, still a great story of what actually took place back in the mid-1950s.

[badalou]

I went to Shaw back then and my buddies and I rode downon our bikes. I was 10. My grandparents lived on Brannon. I also went to holy Innocents but the nuns didn't like me.

[raymondleeleggs]

You can get the movie in WIDESCREEN for $1.00 great movie.

[Barry7777777]

I'll bet Anheuser-Busch paid a nice chunk of money for the advertising in the movie - notice in the last bar scene how all the bottles of beer on the bar carefully had the Budweiser labels facing the camera.

[junjina]

that's not too far from my house

[tturtle5]

sweet my grandparents were in it. actually my grandpa was. in the bar scene

[DMDVA]

Thanks for the upload. My grandparents were extras in the film. I can see my grandmother

in the scene where the customers are dropping down to the floor. I remember that coat and hat she used to wear. The whole family went to the premier of the movie and we met Steve McQueen who was unknown at that time. Too young to remember the actual robbery, I do remember my grandmother telling me that Hershey's chocolate syrup was used for blood in the movie. Impressive detail when you are a kid.

[eold2412]

I really enjoyed watching this clip. I was a student at Holy Innocents school several blocks south on Kingshighway and remember all the police cars responding.I went down and watched parts of the movie being filmed.

Mel Stein looks great for his age. I remember him driving car 29 in the second district for years. Mel you should have been promoted to Sargeant for what you did that day.