The League of Gentlemen (Original title)
Dates: 1960 (Copyright), 16 November 1959 (Production), 18 April 1960 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Basil Dearden
Synopsis: Story of ex-army men who form a crime syndicate and try to commit the "perfect crime".
Genre: Crime
Subject: Theft
Releases
Date: 1960not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 113 mins Length: 10215 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: October 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 116 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Dates: 1960 (Copyright), 16 November 1959 (Production), 18 April 1960 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Basil Dearden
Synopsis: Story of ex-army men who form a crime syndicate and try to commit the "perfect crime".
Genre: Crime
Subject: Theft
Releases
Date: 1960not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 113 mins Length: 10215 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: October 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 116 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
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©/An Allied Film Makers Production: Allied Film Makers, Released by: Rank Film Distributors, Produced by: Michael Relph, Production Manager: Charles Orme, [Production Secretary]: Lorely Farley, Assistant Director: George Pollard, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Ian Goddard, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Terry Clegg, Continuity: Penny Daniels, Screenplay by: Bryan Forbes, From the novel by: John Boland, Director of Photography: Arthur Ibbetson, Camera Operator: H.A.R. Thomson, [Focus Puller]: Steve Claydon, [Clapper/Loader]: Malcolm Vinson, [Stills]: Ian Jeayes, Editor: John D. Guthridge, [Assistant Editor]: Marcel Durham, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: Vera Dover, Art Director: Peter Proud, Set Dresser: Arthur Taksen, [Chief Draughtsman]: Bert Davey, [Draughtsman]: Terence Marsh, [Junior Draughtsman]: Ted Ambrose, [Prop Buyer]: Peter Pratley, [Dress Designer]: Joan Ellacott, [Wardrobe]: John Hilling, Make-up: Harry Frampton, Hairdressing: Barbara Ritchie, Music Composed and Conducted by: Philip Green, Sound Recordist: E.G. Daniels, Bill Daniels, [Boom Operator]: Harry Fairbairn, Sound Editor: Harry Miller, [Publicist]: Diana Hawkins, Made at: Pinewood Studios
Cast
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Jack Hawkins (John George Norman Hyde), Nigel Patrick (Major Peter Graham Race), Roger Livesey (Mycroft), Richard Attenborough (Edward Lexy), Bryan Forbes (Martin Porthill), Kieron Moore (Stevens), Robert Coote (Bunny Warren), Terence Alexander (Rupert Rutland-Smith), Melissa Stribling (Peggy), Norman Bird (Frank Weaver), Nanette Newman (Elizabeth), David Lodge (C.S.M.), Lydia Sherwood (Hilda), Doris Hare (Molly Weaver), Patrick Wymark (Wylie), Gerald Harper (Captain Saunders), Brian Murray (Grogan), Dinsdale Landen ([boxer]), Oliver Reed ([`Babes in the woods' rehearsal dancer]), Norman Rossington ([canteen orderly]), Nigel Green ([man in truck cabin])