Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
Fascinating and gripping ... smart ... slickly shot and clever.
Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
Their crimes resemble high-octane Hollywood action movies: a sports car speeds through a Dubai shopping mall, crashing into the windows of a Graff jewelry store. Masked, gun-wielding men jump out of the car, and stuff fistfuls of diamonds into their satchels before screeching off. In London, they took all of three minutes to make off with $30 million in diamonds.
Dubbed the Pink Panthers, they're captured on surveillance tapes that record their astonishing lightning strikes with hypnotic accuracy. A 2010 New Yorker article by David Samuels described them as "a spectacularly inventive and elusive gang of jewel thieves...who've robbed 152 jewelry stores" in Europe, Asia and the Mid-East, of diamonds worth a quarter-billion dollars, since 2002.
“FASCINATING! YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!” - Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
“A GRIPPING PORTRAIT OF A DARING INTERNATIONAL JEWEL-THEFT RING!” -- Scott Foundas, Variety
Dubbed the Pink Panthers, they're captured on surveillance tapes that record their astonishing lightning strikes with hypnotic accuracy. A 2010 New Yorker article by David Samuels described them as "a spectacularly inventive and elusive gang of jewel thieves...who've robbed 152 jewelry stores" in Europe, Asia and the Mid-East, of diamonds worth a quarter-billion dollars, since 2002.
“FASCINATING! YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!” - Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
“A GRIPPING PORTRAIT OF A DARING INTERNATIONAL JEWEL-THEFT RING!” -- Scott Foundas, Variety
Genre
Documentary,
Crime,
History
Runtime
89
Language
English
Director
Havana Marking
FEATURED REVIEW
Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post
The jewel robbers known as the Pink Panthers may have staged one of history’s most spectacular heists — $136 million from Cannes’ fabled Carlton Hotel — the very week that Havana Marking’s documentary about the gang hits theaters. The movie is fascinating when Marking interviews the pursuing cops ...
Played at
Lumiere Music Hall 8.23.13 - 8.29.13
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