I just watched a 1993 movie called The Real McCoy, a poor bank-heist film. Kim Basinger plays a bank robber who is on parole and forced to do one more big bank job. The relevance here is a rather nicely done fake York vault door. My interest in the movie began with the publicity photo, below, seen on eBay. Easily recognized as a York design (I refer to it as York’s “cam-plate” boltwork but if there is a common term for this, let me know), as described in US patent 929,907. In the movie we first see the door open and it looks realistic except for the lack of time locks and combination locks (later we see it uses an electronic lock). A few moments later Basinger steps into the vault, and they didn’t bother with a ramp to reduce the tripping hazard. Much later in the film we see the door from the inside, locked, with the cam plate properly rotated (continuity error: notice the dark rectangular area on the lower right, that was not in the first image). My last image shows the outside (with their amazing-looking thermal lance) where we see there are no pressure bars, the two in the image are actually for the motorized opening/closing mechanism. The vault interior is amazingly spacious and unrealistic since every square foot costs a lot of money to construct.
Overall I think they did a decent job attempting to duplicate a real door. The rest of the movie is unremarkable unless you’re a big Kim Basinger fan.
