Famous safes from the films

At NeedASafe and Dudley Safes, we're proud to say that we've released a few "celebrity safes" into the world. Our safes have featured on the BBC's Top Gear and ITV´s Trial & Retribution. Oh, and you know that safe in the club in Eastenders? Well that's one of ours, too. They're also a feature in many a Premiership football club office.

But that's enough about our safes. What about the many famous safes that have appeared in the movies? The techniques used to crack them might be a little far-fetched sometimes, but there's a certain glamour to a good old-fashioned heist. Here are a few favourites ...

You Only Live Twice

Year: 1967
What safe? James Bond (played by Sean Connery) breaks into the safe in the Tokyo office of the head of Osato Chemicals.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Year: 1969
What safe? Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are the leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, a team of bank robbers. In the second robbery of the film, Butch uses far too much dynamite to blow a safe ...

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Year: 1969
What safe? George Lazenby's Bond has a great gadget: a combination safe-cracking / photocopying device.

Die Hard

Year: 1988
What safe? New York police detective John McClane, played by Bruce Willis, tries to stop a gang of German terrorists from breaking into a vault at the Nakatomi Plaza.

Killing Zoe

Year: 1994
What safe? Killing Zoe is about a professional safe-cracker named Zed, who goes to Paris to help his childhood friend with a bank heist.

Sexy Beast

Year: 2000
What safe? During a heist, gangsters use diving gear and drill into a banker's vault from a pool in a neighbouring bath house.

Ocean's Eleven

Year: 2001
What safe? Danny Ocean (played by George Clooney) and his team of 11 specialist heist men want to rob an underground vault shared by three Las Vegas casinos.

The Bourne Identity

Year: 2002
What safe? With a new-found set of skills, the number of a Swiss bank account embedded in his leg and no idea what his name is, retrograde amnesiac Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) goes to his safe deposit box in Zürich and finds several passports bearing his picture, money in different currencies and a 9mm handgun ...

The Italian Job

Year: 2003 version
What safe? A team of criminals plot against a traitor in their midst, by planning to steal a safe from his house, load it into the back of a MINI Cooper and use hacked traffic lights to make their getaway. Only things don't go to plan.

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