The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (also called The St. Louis Bank Robbery, the film title in the opening credits) is a 1959 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 with some of the men and women from the St. Louis Police Department, as well as local residents and bank employees, playing the same parts they did in the actual robbery attempt. Steve McQueen was quite unknown when filming began, because he wouldn't get the role of Josh Randall in the TV series Wanted Dead or Alive till some months later. Cast Steve McQueen as George Fowler Crahan Denton as John Egan, the boss David Clarke as Gino, Ann's brother James Dukas as Willy, the driver Molly McCarthy as Ann, George's ex-girlfriend and sister of Gino Martha Gable as Eddie's wife Larry Gerst as Eddie
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (also called The St. Louis Bank Robbery, the film title in the opening credits) is a 1959 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 with some of the men and women from the St. Louis Police Department, as well as local residents and bank employees, playing the same parts they did in the actual robbery attempt. Steve McQueen was quite unknown when filming began, because he wouldn't get the role of Josh Randall in the TV series Wanted Dead or Alive till some months later. Cast Steve McQueen as George Fowler Crahan Denton as John Egan, the boss David Clarke as Gino, Ann's brother James Dukas as Willy, the driver Molly McCarthy as Ann, George's ex-girlfriend and sister of Gino Martha Gable as Eddie's wife Larry Gerst as Eddie