Nervous Bank Down
There's nothing like a good old fashioned bank run (or bank heist movie) to get the blood pumping. TheArchive knows all too well that the lines between fact and fiction often blur. Hollywood has long been fascinated with the world of banking, producing some of the most iconic films of all time. However, as we've seen with the recent banking crisis, the reality of the financial world proves that fact is often stranger than fiction. But our fiction is pretty good too. This week we feature several high flying finance flicks that take us back to a bygone era when banks actually had enough cash to rob. In Bank Robber , Billy robs a bank because his gold digging girl is unsatisfied with his cash position. Utterly unimpressed with his bold move, she bails anyway, and so he hides out in a hotel to avoid the cops. Everyone in the hotel knows he's there and decides it would be fun to be on the take. Why rat him out when instead, they can bilk him for all his cash in exchange fo...
