The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
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Directed by	Charles Guggenheim John Stix
Written by	Richard T. Heffron
Produced by	Charles Guggenheim
Starring	Steve McQueen David Clarke Crahan Denton
Cinematography	Victor Duncan
Edited by	Warren Adams
Music by	Bernardo Segall
Production company	Charles Guggenheim & Associates
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	September 10, 1959 (1959-09-10) (United States)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (also called The St. Louis Bank Robbery, the film title in the opening credits) is a 1959 American heist film directed by Charles Guggenheim and starring Steve McQueen as a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery.

Based on a 1953 bank robbery attempt of Southwest Bank in St. Louis, the film was shot on location in 1958. It features some of the men and women from the St. Louis Police Department, as well as local residents and bank employees, reenacting their roles during the actual robbery attempt.^[1] Between filming and the film's release, Steve McQueen gained national recognition with his breakout role as Josh Randall in the TV series Wanted Dead or Alive.^{[citation needed]}