The Hot Rock (film)

• Robert Redford: John Archibald Dortmunder
• George Segal: Andrew Kelp
• Ron Leibman: Stan Murch
• Paul Sand: Alan Greenberg
• Moses Gunn: Dr. Amusa
• William Redfield: Lt. Hoover
• Topo Swope: Sis
• Charlotte Rae: Ma Murch

The Hot Rock is an American crime comedy from the year 1972. The script uses the motifs of a novel by Donald E. Westlake.

Action

John Archibald Dortmunder and his crew are hired by a politician with the theft of a valuable gemstone. Set in a stone museum once belonged to the people of the politician.

In implementing the plan, the gang members commit numerous errors. Thereafter swallows one of the gangsters, Greenberg, the diamonds as he is arrested. His father later finds the hidden stone and deposited it in a bank tray from the Dortmund brings the stone. It rises at the end smiling in the car, in the waiting his accomplices.

Reviews

• Roger Ebert in the " Chicago Sun-Times " (18 April 1972): The filmmakers are far from having made a perfect heist movie. Two - three scenes, however, would be good enough for any film in the genre.

Awards

• Fred W. Berger and Frank P. Keller were nominated in 1973 for the cut for the Oscar.
• William Goldman was nominated in 1973 for the screenplay for the Edgar Allan Poe Award.

Comments

The locations included Manhattan, Brooklyn and East Meadow (Long Iceland ).