Details

Release year: 1961

Storyline

A gang plans to steal a factory's wages, but an armored van foils them. They rob anyway, killing the driver. His vengeful wife and encroaching police make the gang betray each other.

Top credits

Directors

Sidney Hayers

Writers

Cast

Michael Craig — Johnny Mellors
Françoise Prévost — Katie Pearson
Billie Whitelaw — Jackie Parker
William Lucas — Dennis Pearson

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Did you know

• The plot is similar to the American film noir by Richard Fleischer, Armored Car Robbery (1950), not only for the plot of crooks robbing an armored car, but the sexy wife of the passive, secondary gang member having a secret affair with the gang leader.

• One of many British crime films where Tom Bell plays a criminal underling who argues with his criminal boss. Another is A Prize of Arms. In real life he was a true firebrand and very unpredictable, at one point famously heckling Prince Philip, yelling out "Tell us a joke" to the chagrin of his fellow actor-friends at the table.

• The Pearsons' house is 44 Parkside Crescent, Tynemouth, North Shields - since extended to almost twice its size at time of filming.