Where's Jack? (1969)

Cast

Credited cast:
	Tommy Steele	...	Jack Sheppard
	Stanley Baker	...	Jonathan Wild
	Alan Badel	...	The Lord Chancellor
	Dudley Foster	...	Blueskin
	Fiona Lewis	...	Edgworth Bess Lyon
	Sue Lloyd	...	Lady Darlington
	Noel Purcell	...	Leatherchest
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Eddie Byrne	...	Rev. Wagstaff
	Ivan Dixon	...	Naval Officer
	Michael Douglas	...	Constable
	Michael Elphick	...	Hogarth
	Roy Evans	...	Mr. Hind
	Howard Goorney	...	Surgeon
	John Hallam	...	The Captain
	Dafydd Havard	...	Clerk

Storyline

Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London. Jack is working as an apprentice to a clockmaker when his brother Tom is sentenced to be hanged for theft. To save Tom (who has a wife and children) he goes for help to the brutal 'Thief-taker General' Jonathan Wild. Wild mediates between the government and the criminal underworld, fencing stolen goods and delivering thieves who don't pay him tribute over to the authorities. He assigns Jack a robbery in return for saving Tom from the gallows, but when Jack learns that Tom is instead to be 'transported' to the colonies for a life of hard labour he refuses to cut Wild in on the proceeds. An angry Wild has Jack thrown in Newgate prison, from which he escapes, forming his own criminal outfit with another of Wild's disgruntled associates, Joseph 'Blueskin' Blake... Written by Peter Brynmor Roberts  

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