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The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (Original title)
Date: 1959 (Copyright)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: John Guillermin

Synopsis: Period crime drama. Story of a bank robbery set in 1901.

Genre:
Crime

Subjects:
Theft, Bank of England
Releases
Date: 1959Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 85 mins Length: 7646 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (40)
©: Summit Film Productions, Producer: Jules Buck, Associate Producer: Dora Wright, Production Manager: David Middlemas, Production Administration: Roy Simpson, [Production Secretary]: Elisabeth Woodthorpe, Assistant Director: David Orton, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Charles Blair, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: John Stoneman, Continuity: Angela Martelli, [Casting]: Irene Howard, Screenplay: Howard Clewes, Film Adaptation: Howard Clewes, Richard Maibaum, Based on the novel by: John Brophy, Director of Photography: Georges Périnal, Camera Operator: Chic Waterson, [Focus Puller]: Chic Anstiss, [Clapper Loader]: Geoffrey Holsgrove, Stillsman: David Boulton, Special Effects: Tom Howard, Editor: Frank Clarke, Art Director: Peggy Gick, Art Director: Scott MacGregor, [Property Buyer]: William Isaacs, Costume Designer: Ivy Baker, [Wardrobe Mistress]: Dolly Smith, [Wardrobe Master]: Charles Monet, Make-up: Freddie Williamson, Hairdresser: Joan Johnstone, Music Composed and Conducted by: Edwin Astley, Recording Supervisor: A.W. Watkins, Sound Recording: Cyril Swern, Sound Recording: J.B. Smith, [Sound Camera Operator]: Harold Clark, [Boom Operator]: John Streeter, Technical Adviser: Brig. Rtd. A.H. Swinton, [Publicist]: Paul Mills, Studio: MGM British Studios
Cast (21)
Aldo Ray (Charles Norgate), Elizabeth Sellars (Iris Muldoon), Peter O'Toole (Monty Fitch), Kieron Moore (Walsh), Albert Sharpe (Albert 'Tosher' Sparrow), Joseph Tomelty (Cohoun), Wolf Frees (Dr Hagen), John Le Mesurier (Green, deputy cashier of Bank of England), Miles Malleson (assistant curator), Colin Gordon (Benge, keeper of records), Andrew Keir (sergeant of the guard), Hugh Griffith (O'Shea), Arthur Lowe ([Bank of England official]), Geoffrey Bayldon ([bartender at The Bombardier]), Michael Golden ([gamekeeper]), Michael Brennan ([Walters]), Erik Chitty ([Gudgeon, records assistant]), Frederick Piper ([policeman]), Charles Lloyd Pack ([Mr Peabody]), Russell Waters ([Strand receptionist]), Peter Myers ([Piers])