JohnB_Toronto

I'm trying to recall the name of a film involving a safebreaker who wears special glasses or goggles that allow him to see the beams from the electric eyes of the security system. These beams appear as a luminous network of lines around the room. He has to safely manoevre his way through this web of electric beams to get to the safe. The audience sees these beams as if through his eyes when he's wearing the goggles. I'd say it was B&W - late 50s'early 60's? Does this one sound familiar to anyone?

batman

I have heard of this before, but have never seen it and have no idea what is called.

Bats.

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clitheroekid

Sounds like a film I'd like to watch, but like Bats, have no idea what it is.

dylan

Sounds like Entrapment (1999) but wrong decade and not b/w.

D.

NappieB

I remember seeing this movie. I think it was in the 60s. Can't remember the name.

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mushy747

Hello
Was it Gambit with Michael Caine,Herbert Lom and Shirley Maclaine?
Lyn

JohnB_Toronto

No - it would definitely have pre-dated Gambit.

ChristineCB

Go ahead - just toss those hooks in the water. Good grief, it's not as if I don't have enough films that I just HAVE to see - now JB's brought in another interesting one. I knew I shouldn't have read this thread...

christoph404

Sounds very familiar, are you sure it was a movie and not a TV series?, Robert Wagner as Al Mundy "It Takes a Thief" or an episode of The Man From Uncle? or if its a movie one of the Matt Helm or Flint films with James Coburn, or "Topkapi" with Maximillian Schell. It sounds familiar because it seems like a scenario from many films, most recent being "Entrapment" as mentioned or Mission Impossible the movie and the TV series, or even Gambit with Michael Caine, but seemingly none of those....mmm...food for thought...its not Wallace and Grommit "The Wrong Trousers", there is a laser alarm system in the museum in that movie, tribute to "Topkapi" I think, or could it be any of "The Pink Panther Films?" The trouble is, that laser alarm system has been used so many times in so many films and TV programmes they all tend to merge in ones head somewhat. Im thinking "Topkapi" started a genre of caper movies featuring that kind of thing, could that be the film you are thinking of? 1964 directed by Jules Dassin and Peter Ustinov I think got an Oscar.

NappieB

I'm guessing that it was not TOPKAPI. I thought of that great film too when I first read the question, but in TOPKAPI the main problem alarm system was the in-floor sensors (a gimmick copied and used in so many subsequent inferior movies!)

I also thought of TO STEAL A MILLION with Audrey Hepburn (and maybe Peter O' Toole or Cary Grant? - I forget.) that movie had a great museum scene with infra-red beams that the security guards ultimately were presuaded to disable because of "false alarms".

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JamesM

Before Topkapi, there was Rififi (also directed by Jules Dassin)

JohnB_Toronto

A for Effort but no cigar, I'm sorry to say! It would definitely have pre-dated all of these. I recall seeing this in a cinema and it had to be some time prior to '63 ,,, but was it a then current movie at that time? ... or was it an older one re-doing the rounds as they so often did in those those days? Of those you've named, Rififi would have been around but that definitely wasn't the one . I have both Rififi and Topkapi - definitely neither of those.

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Lord Brett

The Saint double episode The Fiction Makers has such a scene (the laser beams are rather obviously green poles), and was released to Cinemas (I think including the UK) as The Saint and the Fiction Makers around 1967.

Pricey

I've just recently purchased Season 2 of the Monkees on region1 DVD (1967/8) and there's an episode where the boys do this very thing- special goggles to see the alarm lasers in the gallery. I can only imagine they were sending up a scene in a recent for 1967 heist movie? Sorry to be vague but I thought it was worth mentioning.

Steve Crook

I think it's a technique that was used in quite a few robbery/heist films. Infra-red beams were the latest security gadget and films showed people either using special goggles (you'd actually need a lot more kit like thermal imaging systems) or putting smoke in the room to see the beams.

If you can remember anything else about it that would help identify it

Steve