1955 — Six Bridges to Cross

A Boston cop (George Nader) befriends a neighborhood hooligan (Tony Curtis) who can’t stay out of trouble, no matter how much the cop tries to help him. When $2.5 million goes missing from an armored car firm across the street from Curtis’s garage, Nader thinks he knows where to find the thieves.

Six Bridges to Cross is the first of a handful of films based on the Great Brinks Job of 1950. Other robberies depicted in the film were reportedly based loosely on other heists in Boston during the first part of the 20th century. There are quite a few good shots of the city, as well as references to other parts of Massachusetts (including a mispronounced “Wooster”). During the opening, the narrator suggests the title of the film references the six bridge crossings into Boston. I can’t find any reference to six bridges of Boston, so I’m not sure how accurate that is, but if I had to guess, I’d guess the six bridges were the Northern Avenue, Summer Street, Congress Street, and Broadway bridges to Southie, the Charlestown Bridge, and the Longfellow Bridge to Cambridge.