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''[[The Hot Rock]]'' is a 1972 comic [[The Caper|caper]] film written by William Goldman and directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Redford, George Segal and Moses Gunn. The film was based upon Donald E. Westlake's novel of the same name, which introduced his long-running Dortmunder character.
After Dortmunder (Redford) is released from his latest stint in prison, he is approached by his brother-in-law, Andy Kelp (Segal), about another job. Dr. Amusa (Gunn) seeks a valuable gem in a Brooklyn museum that is of great significance to his people in his country in Africa, stolen during colonial times and then re-stolen by various African nations on multiple occasions since. Kelp and Dortmunder are joined by driver Stan Murch (Ron Leibman) and explosives expert Allan Greenberg (Paul Sand) and concoct an elaborate plan for stealing the gem from a museum in Brooklyn. Although the plan (and each subsequent plan) basically works, something always seems to go awry, and the quartet has to steal the diamond again and again.
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Despite the problems in getting the diamond, Dortmunder is determined to break what he calls the curse of the diamond.
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* [[The Caper]]
* [[Crime After Crime]]: "I've heard of the habitual criminal, of course. But I never dreamed I'd become involved with the habitual CRIME."
* [[Double Caper]]
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