BNC Closing Credits: Does 'The Town' Get Bank Robbery Right?
BNC Closing Credits: Does 'The Town' Get Bank Robbery Right?  
Podcast: Bank Nerd Corner
Published On: Thu Jul 30 2026
Description: In this episode of “Closing Credits,” cohosts Kiah Haslett and Catherine Leffert discuss the 2010 action heist movie “The Town” with Jerry Clark, a retired FBI agent who specialized in bank crime. The film — cowritten, directed and starring Ben Affleck — is about a Boston-area bank robber who starts a relationship with a victim of his gang’s robbery that happens at the start of the film. Now a Senior Vice President of Business Development at Arrow Security, Jerry discusses what the movie gets right about bank robberies, as well as how not all bank robberies are as organized and orchestrated. He also walks Kiah and Catherine through how law enforcement investigates a bank robbery and shares some of memorable cases from his career.  --- Closing Credits is a podcast focused on recapping movies with banking, money or finance themes. Fintech Takes Banking is the weekly newsletter for bank execs who get it. Subscribe for the latest in regulation, tech, financials, operations and, yes, accounting, straight to your inbox: ⁠https://fintechtakes.com/banking/newsletter-subscription/⁠ Follow Catherine on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-leffert/ Follow Jerry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-clark-ph-d-06013637 Read Jerry’s book, A History of Heists: Bank Robbery in America: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-history-of-heists-bank-robbery-in-america-ed-palattella/45b5d5fd5f5303ce Follow Kiah LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khaslett/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/khaslett