Quote Originally Posted by Parautoptic View Post
Saw a film a while ago, can`t remember title or who was in it but it involved a bank robbery where the manager was forced to divulge the combination to the outer doors of the vault and the hero produced two very nice shiny black S&G dials and pushed them onto the shafts to dial open the outer doors. Is this a common thing? or was the detached dial thing just a plot device? The whole thing got a bit silly when the wall next to the main vault door (timelocked) was breached with a few rounds from a 20mm cannon at point blank range. The robbers were all right though, they had protective goggles!!! Wot a crock....
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is the film, starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy.

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The flaw in the Italian Job is the underwater 'safe cracking', at a depth of say 12 feet, even a small safe door perhaps 2 foot square, would require about 600 pounds of force to pull the door open.