One powerful fact about Richard Fleischer’s Armored Car Robbery (1950) is that it directly challenged the restrictive Hays Code by depicting the meticulous planning and execution of a heist in explicit detail—right down to the timing of engines, roadblocks, and character interactions. Despite the Code’s prohibition against showing “methods of crime” in a way that could inspire imitation, the film balances on that edge: it doesn’t glorify the criminals (they’re swiftly captured or killed), but it