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- BFI identifier52087
- Date1962 (Copyright)
1963-04-22 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisThe London gangs are controlled on Welfare State principles by Pearly Gates, who is also a couturier. They run into opposition from three Australian crooks who, informed by Pearly's girl friend, Valerie, let the English plan and execute a robbery and then drive up in a squad car, arrest them and take the booty. Pearly negotiates a twenty-four hour truce with Scotland Yard to catch them. They fail to do so and organise another robbery with police co-operation. After much bungling the police and rival gangs converge on an airfield, Pearly escapes with Valerie and Inspector Parker, handcuffed to the money box, to the South Seas. (Synopsis)
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- CreditsDirected by: Cliff Owen
©/Production Company: Robert Velaise Productions
Presents: Romulus Films
view all - CastPeter Sellers (Pearly Gates)
Lionel Jeffries (Inspector Fred 'Nosey' Parker)
Bernard Cribbins (Nervous O'Toole)
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Title
The Wrong Arm of the Law (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/BA96-59E3-9553-F2AE-F42F-3Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Taken from a screenplay by John Warren and Len Heath, based on a story by Ivor Jay and William Whistance Smith - SCR-19509
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Work - 52087 - 1962 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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