Problem with the timing
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Cops and Robbers
ipdailey — 17 years ago(October 09, 2008 05:48 PM)
They did the robbery during the parade for the Apollo 11 astronauts, which would have been in the summer of 1969, right?
Tom (the Cliff Gorman character) got the idea to do the heist during the parade when he saw a newspaper story about how a brokerage house or something like that had gotten knocked over while employees were watching a Mets game. On the jump page, there is something to indicate that it was the Mets in the World Series.
The Mets didn't play in the World Series until October 1969. So how could Tom and Joe get this idea from an October 1969 news story and then do their robbery during a parade for the Apollo 11 astronauts?
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nuyorican-2 — 17 years ago(January 12, 2009 06:42 AM)
You didn't miss anything. If anything, you were very perceptive in picking up the numerous timing inconsistencies that exist in this film.
I was curious as well about the Apollo 11 ticker-tape parade being used as a cover for the robbery. There's one scene, however, that actually gives away when this movie was filmed.
In the scene immediately before the robbery occurs, when Cliff Gorman & Joseph Bologna are driving home, Gorman holds up a copy of the NY Daily News. While the date on the newspaper was too small to read, the baseball scores for the previous day were clearly evident on the back page. The Mets lost to the Cardinals 7-1, while the Yanks were swept in a doubleheader by the Indians by scores of 4-3 & 5-1 respectively. I looked up those scores at Retrosheet.org and found that those games were played June 25, 1972.
To make matters more confusing, in the scene in which "Patsy O'Neil" was booked, the arrest date was entered as 1963. Strange. -
JakeFromJersey — 16 years ago(April 07, 2009 12:20 PM)
I don't think they were specifically suggesting the parade was for the Apollo 11 astronauts. Rather, being a rather low-budget movie, they simply used the easiest-to-get stock footage of a Wall Street tickertape parade.
Leave the gun. Take the canolli.
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Eric-1226 — 14 years ago(July 11, 2011 09:28 PM)
No, that event was definitely meant to be for the crew of Apollo 11. There was even a part where, on the TV or radio, you heard the voice of then-President Richard Nixon congratulating them. Plus, IIRC, the words Apollo 11 appeared in writing in various places.