Safecrackers and Safecracking: Books and Movies
Murder mysteries abound, but there are precious few books, fiction or otherwise, for the general public about safecracking. Murder mysteries have more appeal to writers, readers, and moviegoers. It's hard to maintain reader or moviegoer interest for very long when the topic is safes and safecracking. It can be done, though, and if you keep your eyes open, however, every once in a while a book or a movie about safecracking and safecrackers comes along. Aside from relatively recent and well-known safecracking-themed movies like The Italian Job and The Score, here are a few books and movies I've uncovered: The Great Train Robbery Fiction, by Michael Crichton, the man who brought us Jurassic Park --- This book is easy to find, and was made into a very good movie with Sean Connery (opinion of course). This is the fictionalized account of a real and daringly well-planned heist that took place in England aboard a train carrying safes loaded with the British Army payroll fo...