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This is Larry Lawton, and he's an ex-jewel thief.

Thief sounds like you went in a person's house and robbed it. I just went with a gun right to their face.

Larry's a former career criminal, once considered the biggest jewel thief in the United States.

In seven years, I rob between 15 and 18 million USD, and then served 12 years in federal prison.

And today, I'm gonna break down what's right and wrong in some of Hollywood's great movie heists.

[Vanity Fair true crime: Ex-jewel robber reviews heist scenes.]

We're about to watch a lot of crimes in movies, but let me be very clear, I am in no way endorsing or encouraging crime in any way.

I'm an ex-criminal, and now I work with police agencies to prevent crime, so I want that to be known right off the bat.

We want to hurt no one. We are here for the bank's money, not your money.

Your money's insured by the federal government, you're not gonna lose a dime.

When Robert De Niro takes control and tries to calm everybody down, by telling 'em that their money's insured, he's right.

It's just like with the robberies that I committed, the people's jewelry was insured so they got their money.

It wasn't the people who you're robbing that were getting robbed, the real people are the insurance companies who are losing the money.

And again, I'm not gonna say it was right. It's wrong, but it's not their stuff they're losing.

Most of the people I robbed did not hate me, cause they actually sold their whole store in one shot for insurance.

At one time, the feds couldn't get the jewelry store people to say anything bad against me.

Okay, now the things that stuck out right away on this clip is, how much do you think that money weighs?

You'd like to rob cash, but cash is heavy.

They're flinging around that cash like it's feathers. That cash is heavy.

Each one of those bags is 70 pounds, and they're running through the streets like it's a 10 pound bag.

That's part of that struck out at me right away.

That's why people can rob a lot more in diamonds, you can get a diamond worth 100,000 dollars that is the size of a penny.

You know why cash is king? Because you don't have to deal with a fence.

A fence is the guy you take whatever stolen object you have, you get cash from that person for that stolen item, and he then gets rid of it.

So you'd have a fence for diamonds, you'd have a fence for VCRs, you can have fence for clothes, whatever you steal, you need a fence.

What you're seeing here is a mega millionaire stealing a million dollar picture.

In the Thomas Crown Affair, what does he do? He robs art.

Why does he rob art? Because he knows art, so he knew the value of what he was stealing.

This painting is considered to be the first impressionist work in history.

Why? Because I went to the GIA Institute under the table to know what I was doing.

The GIA Institute is the Gemological Institute of America.

They actually show you how to grade diamonds, rate diamonds, actually give 'em what they call a birth certificate.

So understanding what you rob is more important than sometimes the robbery itself.

Why would I rob something and not know the value of it?

In the Thomas Crown Affair, he gets very tight with everybody.

And that's very common, because when I did my robberies, I ended up getting tight with the owner or the sales person in that jewelry store.

They didn't know who I was, but they got tight with me.

They started talking about the place, and I would end up even sometimes asking to use the bathroom in the back, and they'd say sure.

I'd walk in the back and know everything about the store, where the cameras were.

What I don't like about what I'm seeing in this clip is he's robbing for fun, he's getting a thrill.

I've known people who are very wealthy who want something, but they don't do it themselves, they hire other people to do it.

Are you trying to imply that I had something to do with that painting?

No way, if you were worth 10 million dollars, would you go rob something?

If you got 10 million in your house, what are you gonna rob another million for and go to prison?

I had an opportunity to rob millions of dollars in Rembrandts and Picassos and I couldn't get two cents on the dollar.

That means if I robbed the $1,000,000 picture, I couldn't get $20,000.

People don't understand when you robbed things, rob something you get rid of.

If I rob right now a truckload of apple watches, I could get rid of him tomorrow.

If I robbed a truckload of Picasso's How am I gonna get rid of him?

Can I take the apple watches over the Picassos any day?

The only way you could do something like that is fine.

You set a price for it and then steal it other than and stay away.

In fact, I knew many people used to take chains and pulled a TM machines right out of banks.

Take a big heavy truck or even take a bulldozer, rob the bulldoze and literally take a safe right out.

Throw in the back of a four by four, and they're often gone.

Mr X is when you send police or people or whoever it is toe another area, so you have time to do what you're going to do in your area.

I would actually like malt off cocktails at the end of the other end of Amore town and cops, and everybody's going towards that.

So I know I have more time in the robbery itself.

So that's done very well in this movie with misdirection when the safe was through the floor, Theo.

But guards Aaron, the idiots or they're in on it because £3000 safe going to two floors, it's not gonna end up in a 21 foot boat flying through a canal, you know, in this clip, also, its timing timing is everything.

And knowing when and where people are gonna be in come to the place is important.

Oh, if you could start a little fire or something, right next would throw a brick through a window within a warm and see if they'll how long it takes the police to come there.

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