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The Biggest Bank Robbery (Original title)A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (Working title)Mayfair Bank Caper (Alternative title)The Big Scam (Alternative title)
Date: 1980 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Ralph Thomas

Synopsis: Comedy thriller in which a daring gang lifts 28,000,000 dollars from a well-guarded bank.

Genres:
Comedy, Thriller
Credits (27)
an S. Benjamin Fisz production: S. Benjamin Fisz, Production Company: S. Benjamin Fisz Productions (Nightingale) Ltd, Produced by: S. Benjamin Fisz, Associate Producer: Joyce Herlihy, Executive Accountant: Wally Eggleden, Production Assistant: Jennie Raglan, Assistant Director: David Tringham, Continuity: Ceri Evans, Casting Director: Maude Spector, Original Story & Screenplay by: Guy Elmes, Director of Photography: John Coquillon, Camera Operator: Herbie Smith, Chief Electrician: Nobby Cross, Stills Photographer: Barry Peake, Editor: Peter Boita, Production Designer: Lionel Couch, Art Director: Tony Curtis, Set Dresser: Peter Young, Construction Manager: Jack Carter, Costume Designer: Emma Porteous, Make-up Artist: Freddie Williamson, Hairdresser: Betty Glasow, Music by: Stanley Myers, Sound Recordist: Gerry Humphries, Simon Kaye, Dubbing Editor: Peter Best
Cast (22)
Richard Jordan, Oliver Tobias, David Niven (Ivan), Elke Sommer, Gloria Grahame, Richard Johnson, Michael Angelis, Dicken Ashworth, Minah Bird, Peter Cartwright, Brian Croucher, Derek Deadman, James Galloway, Hugh Griffith, Charlie Hawkins, Anthony Heaton, Davy Kaye, Edward Peel, Brian Protheroe, John Rhys Davies, Gerard Ryder, John Washbrook