Safes & Vaults versus Hollywood

[wylk]

Kind of related, I did enjoy the Mythbusters popping a safe by filling it with water and using 1/2 stick of dynamite. They don't always do good science but they are usually entertaining.

[wylk]

Back to Hollywood, in the original comedic Casino Royale, there is a wall safe with doors on both sides of the wall, so of course two characters (in gorilla suits) simultaneously manipulate both doors without knowing about the other gorilla. Has anybody seen a wall safe with two doors like this?

[Parautoptic]

Dunno if it counts, but I have seen an arrangement at a bank where there was a small space in the thickness of the wall with a safe-like door on each side. It was used for stuff that the courier brought/collected at night. Secure, but not really a "safe" I suppose. The last time I went past it was a shop but the two doors were still there.

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[Dean Nickel]

That was used like has been said as a secure pass. It will not allow you into the safe but it will allow you to leave or pickup something that is going it or out of the safe like armor car deliveries or pickups. I don't think that would be used anymore as there have been much better practices.

[cookiebear7]

Can anyone remind me of the name and actors of a movie made about 1980? where a young boy who liked to hang around a magic shop was forced to manipulate several safes for the bad guy? This was the best representation of safe opening I have ever seen. It took time and showed him penciling on his graphs.