The Great Bank Robbery (1969)

Director
Hy Averback

Main cast
Zero Mostel; Kim Novak; Clint Walker; Claude Akins; Akim Tamiroff

Genres
Western, Comedy

Description
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.


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