The Big Heist
The Big Heist
Release: 2001-06-10
·Runtime: 92m
·★ 4.9
Drama
TV Movie
Crime
Based on the 1986 book "The Heist: How a Gang Stole $8,000,000 at Kennedy Airport and Lived to Regret It", by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings, this TV movie tells the story about the 1978 Lufthansa Heist at JFK Airport in New York - the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil. The heist was also the subject of the much better-known 1990 film "Goodfella"s, directed by Martin Scorsese. It was also the subject of another made-for-television film: "The 10 Million Dollar Getaway" from 1991.
Production Countries
Canada
United States of America
Production Companies
Alliance Atlantis
Gary Hoffman Productions
A+E Studios
Cast
Joe Pingue
as Marty Krugman
Steven Randazzo
as John Gotti
Donald Sutherland
as Jimmy Burke
Jamie Harris
as Frankie Burke
Janet Kidder
as Maria
Michael P. Moran
as Louis the Whale
Rocco Sisto
as Tommy DeSimone
Joe Maruzzo
as Paolo Falcone
John Heard
as Richard Woods
Nick Sandow
as Henry Hill
Sam Coppola
as Paul Castellano
