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5 December 1957 (USA) moreTagline:
Crime of the century!Plot:
On a dark night of pelting rain, five men stage a well-planned train robbery and get away with a 10,000,000 dollar... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
The machine rages against us moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Gene Raymond | ... | Eddie Harris |
| Jeanne Cooper | ... | Fran Werner |
| Wayne Morris | ... | Commando Munson |
| Elisha Cook Jr. | ... | Skeets Jonas |
| Stafford Repp | ... | Roly Adams |
| Steven Ritch | ... | Frankie Chardo |
| Naura Hayden | ... | Hazel (as Nora Hayden) |
| Helene Heigh | ... | Society Woman |
| Paul Harber | ... | Trooper No. 1 |
| Don Garrett | ... | Policeman |
| Michael Fox | ... | Smog Officer / Narrator |
| Richard Newton | ... | Guard No. 2 |
| Charles J. Conrad | ... | Trooper No. 2 (as Charles Conrad) |
| Jim Canino | ... | Tibbs |
| Robin Riley | ... | Don |
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Being primarily a visual medium, one of the things film does best is illustrate the mechanics of complex items. I refer not only to the machinations of the caper plot so well achieved here, but also to big machines themselves -- trains, trucks, assembly lines. Many a great director has used the relentless workings of machines as a metaphor for inescapable fate -- think especially of Fritz Lang and the openings of Human Desire and Clash by Night.
The stars of Plunder Road are the machines themselves -- the overburdened trucks inching their way to freedom, the massive crane and huffing sabotaged train in the rain-pelted robbery scene, the bubbling cauldron at the foundry contributing to the ingenious escape plan, etc. The human characters are sketched briefly, with impressionistic strokes, but it's the mute mechanical accomplices that drive the plot and stick in the mind. This is best illustrated by the cleverly-inserted visit of a smog inspector, and again in the cruelly ironic downfall of the protagonists, who are at the mercy of their guileless vehicles.