Share some ideas with your bank-robbing friends, click the Facebook 'share' button below., And then check out 22 Creative Ads for Illegal Activities. It was Monday morning, July 19, 1976, and the main vault door wouldn't open. Of the four films about the ingenious 1976 robbery of the supposedly impregnable Société Générale bank in Nice by Albert Spaggiari and his gang tunneling their way in through the sewers - Les Egouts du Paradis, Loophole and most recently Sans Arme, Ni Haine, Ni Violence - Francis Megahy's Sewers of Gold is by far the most compelling affair. There were actually 3 movies based on this bank robbery: Les égouts du paradis, a French movie directed by José Giovanni (1979). In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. Straight From a Heist Movie: Someone Tunneled Into a Belgium Bank Through The Sewer Published February 4, 2019 • Updated on February 4, 2019 at 5:00 pm It was anything but a false alarm. The bank had no cash. Crowds of … For more insane robberies, check out 5 Real Bank Heists Ripped Right Out of the Movies. This movie is based on … The Great Riviera Bank Robbery (also known Dirty Money and Sewers of Gold), a British movie directed by Francis Megahy (1979). The robbery was planned by one Albert Spaggiari, a French criminal. Bank robbery is the crime of stealing money from a bank, specifically while bank employees and customers are subjected to force, violence, or a threat of violence.This refers to robbery of a bank branch or teller, as opposed to other bank-owned property, such as a train, armored car, or (historically) stagecoach.It is a federal crime in the United States. The bank couldn't function. This movie really lacks a good director, one with a sense of suspense. On 16 July 1976, after two months of drilling through the underlying sewers, a commando of 13 robbers finally broke into the vaults of the Société Générale bank in central Nice. Albert Spaggiari (December 14, 1932 – June 8, 1989), nicknamed Bert, was a French criminal chiefly known as the organizer of a break-in into a Société Générale bank in Nice, France in 1976. https://www.amazon.com/Great-Riviera-Bank-Robbery/dp/B001AU0IGU The robbery took place in Nice during a peaceful summer weekend in 1976. The Great Riviera Bank Robbery, aka Sewers of Gold, aka Dirty Money (they definitely were at a loss for ideas to market this unexciting movie) tells the story of the July'76 Société Générale Bank robbery in Nice. NICE, France.