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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 4293179, member: 2504"] The Hot Rock (1972) - This film stars Robert Redford and George Segal, and was directed by Peter Yates, who went on to direct one of my favorite films of the 1970's, "Breaking Away". "The Hot Rock" is a heist movie with comedic elements, with Redford the leader and chief planner of a scheme to steal a gem from a museum. There is also a small but nice supporting role for Zero Mostel, who plays a lawyer who is the father of one of the members of the gang involved in the scheme, but the movie is pretty much carried along by Redford's screen presence. This is a film where nothing seems to go exactly the right way in executing the heist, so the gang is constantly having to come up with something new in order to ultimately achieve their goal. Some pretty wild stuff goes on in this movie in the execution of the scheme. This movie is nothing special, but it is certainly watchable and entertaining. [/QUOTE]