Three friends execute the biggest bank robbery in Australian History. Based on the true story of the 1932 robbery in the outback town of Cloncurry. (5 Part Series plus Novel).

SYNOPSIS:

Jack, George and Tom are three locals, all with a motive to rob the Queensland National Bank. Jack is a cattleman. George works for Jack. He likes Peach, a pretty girl he wants to marry. Trouble is, her brother, Michael, works as an accountant in the Q.N. Bank and is one of three men who have keys to the bank’s vaults.

Tom is the owner of the town’s cinema. He has his eye on Folly, house-keeper to the Q.N. bank manager. So how do you get six different keys from three men without them knowing it, and then return those keys, without them knowing it, then rob the bank?

Our heroes are not the best candidates for such a complex task. They have personal encumbrances. George is genuinely in love with Peach and doesn’t want to use her to get to her brother. Tom, although trying to use Folly, finds she is more than a match for his Machiavellian ways. He is offbalance, having the tables turned on him as he progressively falls in love with her.

But fate intervenes, forcing their collective hand. Tom’s and Jack’s horse, Lightning, fails by a whisker to win the Cloncurry Cup. The three friends lose all their money. They now have no choice but to proceed with the plan.

After the third attempt they successfully rob the O.N. Bank - but what a success. In one of the safety deposit boxes they find keys to the Bank of N.S.W., just down the road. The temptation is too great. They decide to also rob that bank.

As expected, the wheels begin to fall off. George is caught red-handed passing a numbered bank note, and is grilled by Nelson, the CIB detective brought in from Brisbane. Folly has also worked out that Tom used her, and threatens to reveal all to Nelson. Jack, a known cattle duffer, has no alibi, and being a close friend to Tom and George is therefore an obvious suspect.

But history records they got away with it. This story tells how.

HOW TO ROB A BANK BADLY - THE STORY OF THE 'CURRY GANG