St. Ives (1976) on Netflix
Abner Procane, a Los Angeles burglar, finds his plans for a coming heist stolen from his safe. He hires Raymond St. Ives, an ex-policeman who writes crime books, to negotiate their return.
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Plot summary
Abner Procane is a burglar in Los Angeles. He finds that someone has stolen his plans for an ambitious heist, five journals that were taken from his safe, and he wants them back. Procane and his assistant hire Raymond St. Ives to negotiate the return of the documents. St. Ives is an ex-policeman who has worked as a crime reporter and written crime novels, and he takes the job as go-between. The stolen papers spell out a robbery Procane means to carry out, and St. Ives becomes embroiled in the task of recovering them for Procane.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about St. Ives (1976)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- While St. Ives was being made, the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman visited the set; as reported by Phil Hardy in The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: The Gangster Film, Bergman said that Charles Bronson was "scandalously underestimated".
- St. Ives began one of the longest actor-director partnerships of its era: it was the first of nine films that Charles Bronson made with director J. Lee Thompson.
