Armored Car Robbery is a 1950 American film noir starring Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, and William Talman.

In Los Angeles criminal mastermind Dave Purvis devises a scheme to rob an armored car on its last pickup of the day.

He recruits scuffling Benny McBride, who brings in fellow low-level professional crooks Al Mapes and Ace Foster to complete the gang.

Benny needs money to feed his hopeless plan to win his wife Yvonne back, a gorgeous blonde stripteaser who lost interest in him and is seeing another man.

The robbery at minor league Wrigley Field begins as planned but goes wrong when a passing police patrol car intervenes.

Lt. Jim Cordell, the dead cop’s partner, takes it upon himself to bring the killer to justice, and throws himself into the case, brusquely treating rookie replacement Danny Ryan.

They wrote, "Almost documentary in its account of the heist that goes wrong and the police procedures that are set in motion, making excellent use of LA locations, it relies on superb high contrast lighting to meld reality into the characteristic noir look".

[10] Film critic Roger Fristoe believed director Richard Fleischer pushed the boundaries of the Motion Picture Production Code.

Armored Car Robbery, however, had a blunt title, explicit violence and a detailed account of the planning and execution of the crime.