Well here we have a cast on top British Film actors all recognisable and very well know in that era.
Jack Hawkins plays the main character, a retired Colonel called Hyde . Pensioned off after 25 years loyal service in the military, he puts his meticulous planning skills to good use by plotting a bank robbery.
In order order to carry out the robbery, Hyde needs a team of experts.
Colonel Hyde carefully identifies seven former army officers to help put his plan into action, who have all fallen on hard times for one reason or anoth
Nigel Patrick is Major Race, a small time gambler and crook.
Bryan Forbes BELOW who both wrote and acted in this film is married but something of a womaniser.
His wife in real life is also in the film – in fact she plays Terence Alexander’s wife = he is another one of the gang BELOW
Richard Attenborough above as Lexi
Roger Livesey BELOW plays Padre – I always liked him in films and remember ‘I Know Where I’m Going” – quite a few years before this one
Kieron Moore is Captain Stevens BELOW.
BELOW – A young lad doing what many of us did in the day – collecting Car Numbers – and this proved the ultimate undoing of this well planned robbery
It really is a good and absorbing film – we really wanted them to get away with it but they seemed quite a mottled crew – who knows what might have happened to them all.
As it happens seeing them all loaded into a Police van we have a good idea of what did happen to them
Very enjoyable
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