Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
July 2013
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Michael O'Sullivan
[The] excursions into moral and sociological themes are what makes "Smash and Grab" so intriguing, and what separate it from a kind of "Ocean's Eleven"-style verite.
Gary Goldstein
The world's most successful ring of diamond thieves is inventively and insightfully explored in the documentary "Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers."
Scott Foundas
Havana Marking's imaginatively made documentary is a gripping portrait of a daring international jewel-theft ring.
Alan Scherstuhl
The doc breezily sketches out the process of casing, smashing, grabbing, escaping, and fencing, not in as much detail as David Samuels's stellar New Yorker piece on the Panthers a couple years...
Frank Scheck
Using real-life surveillance footage and interviews with several of the gang's members themselves, this eerily timely true-crime documentary fascinates.
Nicolas Rapold
The insider's level of detail that gives so many good crime movies their bite is also what makes the documentary "Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers" guiltily absorbing.
Critic reviews
Michael O'Sullivan
[The] excursions into moral and sociological themes are what makes "Smash and Grab" so intriguing, and what separate it from a kind of "Ocean's Eleven"-style verite.
Gary Goldstein
The world's most successful ring of diamond thieves is inventively and insightfully explored in the documentary "Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers."
Scott Foundas
Havana Marking's imaginatively made documentary is a gripping portrait of a daring international jewel-theft ring.
Alan Scherstuhl
The doc breezily sketches out the process of casing, smashing, grabbing, escaping, and fencing, not in as much detail as David Samuels's stellar New Yorker piece on the Panthers a couple years...
Frank Scheck
Using real-life surveillance footage and interviews with several of the gang's members themselves, this eerily timely true-crime documentary fascinates.
Nicolas Rapold
The insider's level of detail that gives so many good crime movies their bite is also what makes the documentary "Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers" guiltily absorbing.
User reviews
Interesting story A curious bunch.. these pink panthers. Seems they are established for many years to come. Very interesting and well done.
Cast and credits
Actors | Daniel Vivian, Jasmin Topalusic, Rob Kennedy, Tomislav Benzon |
Producers | Mike Lerner |
Director | Havana Marking |
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Start within 30 days, finish within 48 hours.
Run time
93 minutes
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