Sentence examples for wheelgun from inspiring English sources
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn is paying homage to 1970s and 1980s Hollywood action pictures – to early Michael Mann, and especially Walter Hill's magisterial 1978 getaway thriller The Driver, also about a glacial wheelman, also played by a Ryan (O'Neal).
The directing prize went, somewhat surprisingly, to another Dane, Nicolas Winding Refn, for "Drive," starring Ryan Gosling as a stunt wheelman for the movies who also works as a getaway driver.
The crew you recruit for the job is likely to include a jugmarker, the tactical genius who designs these delicate operations; a lip man to deliver the boss's orders; a boxman to crack the safe; a bagman to handle the loot; a wheelman to drive the getaway car; and maybe a couple of buttonmen ("they hurt people") to facilitate the whole enterprise.
Instead, hapless, luckless, expressionless Henry ends up the accidental wheelman in a robbery that lands him in the slammer, where he shares a cozy cell with a confidence man Max Saltzman James Caann, unexpectedly twinkly).
Mr. Heiser — the "whipping-post wheelman," as Page Six of The New York Post later named him — claimed in a police report that Mr. Burke had punched him in the face and slammed his head in the trunk of a car during a drinking spree in New Jersey.
In the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn's "Drive," Ryan Gosling is a stunt driver and part-time mechanic who moonlights as a wheelman for thieves (when he's not tooling around late-night Los Angeles listening to moody, synthy pseudo-'80s tunes).
Both are captivating, in different ways".Wheelmen" does not confine itself to Mr Armstrong.
I'm one of those wheelmen and I could end up with a bunch of different partners.
Graham, a former cliff diver and extreme snowboarder, is one of 300 or so stuntpeople who work steadily and earn several hundred thousand dollars a year; he's also one of the industry's top wheelmen, whose specialty is the high fall.
They were wheelmen first, cycling like everybody else".
"Wheelmen think differently from normal people," says the novel's narrator, known as Jack, who's no slouch himself when it comes to details. "They see the little things".
