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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
John Boland (novel)
Bryan Forbes (screenplay)
Release Date:
22 August 1960 (Sweden) more
Plot:
A disgruntled veteran recruits a group of disgraced collegues to perform a bank robbery with military precision. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win more
User Comments:
A Wonderful Film more (23 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jack Hawkins | ... | Hyde |
| Nigel Patrick | ... | Race |
| Roger Livesey | ... | Mycroft |
 | Richard Attenborough | ... | Lexy |
| Bryan Forbes | ... | Porthill |
| Kieron Moore | ... | Stevens |
| Terence Alexander | ... | Rupert |
| Norman Bird | ... | Weaver |
| Robert Coote | ... | Bunny Warren |
| Melissa Stribling | ... | Peggy |
| Nanette Newman | ... | Elizabeth |
| Lydia Sherwood | ... | Hilda |
| Doris Hare | ... | Molly Weaver |
| David Lodge | ... | C.S.M. |
| Patrick Wymark | ... | Wylie |
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Runtime:
116 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:PG | Australia:G (DVD rating) | Iceland:L | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Unrated | West Germany:12
Filming Locations:
Belgrave Mews, Belgrave Square, Belgravia, London, England, UK more
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The army camp that the League Of Gentlemen raid was built around the now disused Timekeepers Entrance at Pinewood Studios. In some low angle shots, the famous water tower can be seen clearly in the background. This entrance was utilized in many films from that period, including another barracks entrance in Guns at Batasi (1964), a research lab in Carry on Spying (1964) and Elsbels Airport in Carry on Abroad (1972). Since the construction of the new entrance, the Timekeepers (which was the main entrance into the studio) has been sealed off. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: During the weapons robbery at the army camp, Porthill, played by Bryan Forbes, is wearing a uniform with an RASC (Royal Army Service Corps) shoulder flash. But he is missing the striped lanyard which he should have been wearing over his left shoulder. Such a lanyard, usually attached to a clasp knife stored in the left breast pocket of the battledress jacket, was standard equipment for members of the RASC in 1960. more
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Major Race:
Is that your wife?
Lt. Col. Hyde:
Yes.
Major Race:
Is she dead?
Lt. Col. Hyde:
No, no. I regret to say the bitch is still going strong.
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This film apparently inspired the British comic troupe "The League Of Gentlemen".
I'm not surprised.
The film was directed by the popularly underrated Basil Dearden and starred the equally underrated Jack Hawkins.
What a shame they're so underrated!
The cast were brilliantly chosen and the plot is inspired. It would probably be impossible to remake this film acceptably well - it is very much of it's time.
Nigel Patrick will tell you, old darling, that you should watch this film with warmth and humour - the way it was made.