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n. A game played by schoolchildren in which the "robbers" have to steal "gold" and return it to their "base" without being caught by the "cops" and taken to "jail". When in "jail", "prisoners" can be "freed" by other "robbers".
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Cops and Robbers is a 1973 Crime Comedy film directed by Aram Avakian and written by Donald E. Westlake based upon his own novel. The film stars Cliff Gorman as Tom and Joseph Bologna as Joe.
Cops and Robbers is a 1951 Italian cult comedy film directed by Steno and Mario Monicelli. It stars the famous comedian Totò, and the cinematographer was the future film director Mario Bava. It was produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti.
Its style is close to Italian neorealism. Released in Italian cinemas in November 1951 and shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1952, earned the award for Piero Tellini the script and Totò the Nastro d'Argento. It had trouble with the censor because it portrayed clumsy police and smart thieves, but it was a great success. The film was a huge success and an unexpected liking by critics. Cops and robbers represented a real turning point in the career of Totò, so that for the first time his film was exclusively positive reviews, and its interpretation is considered one of the best of his career.
In 2008 the film was selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved.
It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
"Cops and Robbers" is a single by the UK Indie Band The Hoosiers. It was their fourth single to be released from their debut album, The Trick to Life. It was first made available to download through the album which was released on 22 October 2007. The single was physically released on 21 April 2008 as confirmed by the band on tour. The song has been noted for its remarkable similarities to " The Lovecats" by The Cure.
Cops and Robbers may refer to:
Cops and Robbers is a 1993 Australian-New Zealand film about a bankrupt man who embarks on a career of crime.
Usage examples of "cops and robbers".
We gabbed cops and robbers and fight stuff with him, and afterward he kicked back a good bottle of bourbon, that Lee always kicked back to Harry Sears to keep us greased up with good tips from Homicide.
With the television showing nothing but cops and robbers, you could use a machine gun nowadays without anyone noticing the noise.
The 'soop' put it on speaker, and we got this FBI-guy askin' if we got a nut-case teacher in London playing cops and robbers.
I listened to the stories the old bums would tell--cops and robbers, railroads and Pinkerton men, darkness.
Whether it's cops and robbers or cops and terrorists, I don't care.
These were Luddites at their worst, people who hated technology and progress of any kind, people rnired in a past of cops and robbers and lawless greed.
He was full of repressed excitement, a kid in the middle of a game of cops and robbers.