Picks and Pans Review: The Brink's Job

UPDATED 08/08/1983 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 08/08/1983 at 01:00 AM EDT

(ABC, 9-11 p.m. ET)

Director William (The French Connection) Friedkin couldn't decide whether to make a car-chasing caper or a quirky comedy out of this disappointing 1978 film, based on the true story of a gang that successfully raided a Brink's truck in Boston in 1950. Peter Falk is the genial leader of the gang, which includes Warren Oates, Paul Sorvino and Peter Boyle as bumbling sidekicks. (Repeat)