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Film

 1. The Hunter (1980)

 2. Tom Horn (1980)

 3. An Enemy of the People (1978)

 4. Dixie Dynamite (1976)

 5. The Towering Inferno (1974)

 6. Papillon (1973)

 7. The Getaway (1972)

 8. Junior Bonner (1972)

 9. On Any Sunday (1971)

10. Le Mans (1971)

11. The Reivers (1969)

12. Bullitt (1968)

13. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

14. The Sand Pebbles (1966)

15. Nevada Smith (1966)

16. The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

17. Baby The Rain Must Fall(1965)

18. Love With The Proper Stranger (1963)

19. Soldier In The Rain (1963)

20. The Great Escape (1963)

21. The War Lover (1962)

22. Hell Is For Heroes (1962)

23. The Honeymoon Machine (1961)

24. The Magnificent Seven (1960)

25. Never So Few (1959)

26. The Great St.Louis Bank Robbery (1959)

27. The Blob (1958)

28. Never Love A Stranger (1958)

29. Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

30. Girl On The Run (1953)



TV

 1. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959&60)

 2. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958-61) 

 3. Trackdown (1958)

 4. Tales of Wells Fargo (1958)

 5. Climax! (1958)

 6. The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1957)

 7. West Point (1957)

 8. Studio One (1957) TV

 9. The United States Steel Hour (1956)

10. Goodyear Television Playhouse (1955)

AS reviewed by Videoscope Magazine: "Dismissed in the few film reference guides in which it even recieves a mention, this is an excellent hard-dashed edged verite style noir... Tense, riveting and way ahead of its time. If you like noirs, Great is one you'll want to 'scope out post haste".

I personally agree with this review (taken from the front of the ROAN DVD). This film held my attention with good acting and plenty of tension. I had to be patient with the start of the film, but as it got going I became absorbed.

The film is based on a true incident, and the police oficers in the real robbery play the same parts they did in the actual crime.

The basic plot involves a small gang of experienced criminals who recruit a new member in the form of a young lost soul (McQueen as George). A lot of the film is spent in the 'setup' phase, but soon new elements are introduced in the form of a love interest for George (Molly McCarthy as Ann) and intergroup rivalry. As the plan starts to come slightly undone, the characters we care about are faced with grave danger from within the gang and without. As the Videoscope review indicates, this is a noir film, with a dark, bleak quality to it, in which no one is safe from danger.