Robbery

Robbery is a 1985 Australian television film directed by Michael Thornhill inspired by the Great Bookie Robbery. Plot Major Bill Taylor (John Sheerin), leader of a fictitious Australian SAS-like regiment, is in charge of a hush-hush training exercise that goes wrong and is made to take leave (and the section disbanded) while the dust settles. He has a meeting at a gentlemen's club with retired Lt. Russ Stephenson (Tony Rickards) who tells him about regular meet-ups of bookmakers at the Club where they quietly settle accounts, totalling millions of dollars. Taylor recruits Shaw, Banks, Peters and Williams (Tim Hughes, Jonathon Sweet, Stan Kouros and Peter Fisher), all ex-commandos and missing the action; they train for the heist which has been planned by Taylor. Taylor and two others steal weapons from a gun shop while the others create diversions: blasting the door of an electricity substation and smashing jeweller's shop windows. They subsequently holdup a small city bank, "for working capital", but mostly as a training exercise. Meanwhile, police chief Murray (Richard Meikle) is frustrated through getting no leads on suspected crime boss Michael Webster (Rhys McConnochie), suspecting a leak in his own office. He personally tasks attractive young D.I. Joan Pearson (Regina Gaigalas) to investigate Webster through his henchman, eligible bachelor Noel Jenkins (Joseph Spano), pledging her to secrecy on account of the likely informer.