The Split (1968) on Netflix
R19681h 31mActionCrimeDramaThriller
McClain plans a robbery at the Los Angeles Coliseum, timed to a football game, and recruits four men. Gladys, his partner, finances the job. The take is to be split six ways.
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Plot summary
McClain is given the task of planning a robbery at the Los Angeles Coliseum, to be carried out after a big game. He picks four men to help, putting each one through a test first. Gladys, who works with him, puts up the money. The crew gets away with more than half a million dollars, to be divided six ways the following day. McClain leaves the money overnight with Ellie, his ex-wife.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Split (1968)
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- Irwin Winkler first offered the lead in The Split to Steve McQueen, who was interested but chose to make Bullitt instead. Jim Brown, who had read the script and was enthusiastic about it, was then cast as McClain.
- Jim Brown's action double on the film was Calvin Brown, a founding member of the Black Stuntmen's Association. Before the 1960s, black actors were usually doubled by "painted down" white performers, until Bill Cosby refused such stuntmen on I Spy.
- The Split came out shortly after the MPAA rating system was introduced on November 1, 1968, making it one of the earliest titles to receive an R rating.
