Two-for-one 'identify that movie' question.

April 11, 2010 6:24 PM

More "Identify this old movie" questions -- now two for the price of one.

Okay... two movies which I have never seen but only heard about from friends in grade school, so the movies have to be at least 25 years old. I believe both were made for TV.

1) A heist movie where the bad guys divert an armoured truck in the desert onto a closed road, trap it there, and lay siege to it.

2) A flick where a guy loses consciousness in the washroom of a department store (is ill, get mugged and beaten, I don't know) and wakes up to find the store is closed for the weekend and there are vicious guard dogs roaming the premises.

Any ideas?

posted by ricochet biscuit to Media & Arts (7 answers total)

Best answer: The second one is Trapped (1973). Scared the hell out of me as a kid.
posted by neroli at 6:37 PM on April 11, 2010

The first one sounds a lot like a scene from Heat.
posted by jjray at 6:40 PM on April 11, 2010

Of course I did not read the rest of the question.
posted by jjray at 6:40 PM on April 11, 2010

Ok but then it turns out Heat is a remake of a made-for-TV movie also with the same armored truck heist but it isn't in the desert as such so I'll be quiet now.
posted by jjray at 6:59 PM on April 11, 2010

Best answer: Oh, lord. I remember Trapped. I watched it while I was babysitting and scared myself shitless.
posted by SLC Mom at 7:25 PM on April 11, 2010

Response by poster: Well, one for two. Any ideas for the armoured truck one?
posted by ricochet biscuit at 7:47 PM on April 11, 2010

Best answer: Las Vegas, 500 Milliones (aka They Came to Rob Las Vegas) involves an armored-car heist in the desert.
posted by Paragon at 8:16 PM on April 11, 2010