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''The Bank Job'' is a 2008 British crime film written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, directed by Roger Donaldson, and starring Jason Statham, based on the 1971 Baker Street robbery in central London, from which the money and valuables stolen were never recovered. The producers allege that the story was prevented from being told in 1971 because of a D-Notice government gagging request, allegedly to protect a prominent member of the British Royal Family.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bank job that opened the door on a royal sex scandal )〕 According to the producers, this film is intended to reveal the truth for the first time,〔(Production Information ), Lionsgate UK website, Accessed 9 January 2008〕 although it includes significant elements of fiction. The premiere was held in London on 18 February 2008, and the film was released in both the UK on 29 February 2008, and in the US on 7 March 2008. It was a critical and financial success. ==Plot synopsis== The British Security Services (MI5) have taken interest in a safe deposit box located in a bank on London’s Baker Street. It belongs to a black militant gangster, Michael X, and contains compromising photos of Princess Margaret,〔("How MI5 raided a bank to get pictures of Princess Margaret" ), ''Evening Standard'', 20 May 2007〕 which he is keeping as insurance to keep the British authorities off his back. Martine, an ex-model who is romantically involved with an MI5 agent, is caught smuggling drugs into the country, and to avoid going to jail she makes a deal with the authorities in which she agrees to retrieve the photos. Martine approaches her friend Terry, a struggling car salesman with criminal contacts, and tells him if he can assemble the gang to help her rob the bank he'll be richly rewarded, though she doesn't tell him about the photos in the deposit box. Terry recruits a small team, including one of his own workers, Eddie, to serve as the look-out, and Dave, a porn actor who once made films for Lew Vogel, a gangster whom Dave happens to run into outside the bank before the robbery. The gang tunnels their way into the bank vault, where they steal money and other valuables, but Terry is suspicious when he notices that Martine only seems to be interested in one box containing nothing but photographs. After they escape together, Terry throws off a pursuit by MI5. By now the police have been alerted to the robbery by a ham radio operator who has picked up the "chatter" from the gang's walkie-talkies, and Lew learns that among the missing safe deposit boxes is his own box, which is full of evidence about his payoffs to crooked cops. He notifies a furious Michael X in Trinidad, who correctly suspects Gale Benson, the lover of a fellow militant, of spying for MI5, and subsequently murders her. Vogel decides that Dave’s presence outside that particular bank was not a coincidence, and has him tortured for information. Dave gives in, and Lew goes to Terry’s garage to kidnap Eddie. Meanwhile, a government minister learns that he is also featured in some of the stolen photos, and persuades MI5 to give the robbers new passports and safe passage in exchange for the photos in order to avoid a scandal. One of the crooked cops on Lew's payroll shoots Dave, and threatens to shoot Eddie unless Vogel gets his evidence back. Terry agrees to deliver it to him at Paddington station at the same time he is supposed to be picking up his new passports from MI5, but has meanwhile passed on the details to an honest cop, Roy, who alerts MI5 agents. During the exchange, Lew recognises the agents, and he and the corrupt cops make a run for it. Terry pursues Lew and proceeds to beat him up, but Roy breaks up the fight and arrests Lew and his colleagues. In Trinidad, Michael X is also arrested. With his freedom and his new passport, Terry and his family are seen enjoying a carefree life on their small motor yacht off a sunny beach. According to the epilogue, the corrupt police officers on Vogel's payroll were duly investigated, and Michael X was hanged for Gale Benson's murder. It also says that Michael X's personal files are to be kept hidden until 2054 and that £4 million worth of property was stolen. Vogel was imprisoned for eight years for crimes unrelated to the robbery. At least 100 safe deposit box owners have neither claimed insurance nor identified the items in their boxes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Bank Job」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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