Word: rififi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gone, they set to their appointed task, knowing that almost 72 hours would elapse before they would be disturbed. Their base of operations was an empty apartment above the bank. From that vantage point, they disconnected four separate alarm systems. Then, just as in the 1956 movie Rififi, they drilled a hole in the floor to the bank's data-processing center. Dropping through, they approached their principal objective: the two doors leading to the bank's 186 safe deposit boxes in the basement of the building. The first iron-barred door was easy to breach; the second...