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Payroll (Original title)I Promise to Pay (Working title)
Dates: 1961 (Copyright), 20 April 1961 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Sidney Hayers

Synopsis: Gangster melodrama dealing with a hold-up which finally misfires.

Genre:
Crime
Releases
Date: 1961Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 105 mins Length: 9450 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (32)
©: Lynx Films, Production Company: Independent Artists, opening logo: Anglo Amalgamated, Presents: Nat Cohen, Stuart Levy, A Julian Wintle Leslie Parkyn Production: Julian Wintle, Leslie Parkyn, Produced by: Norman Priggen, Unit Manager: Geoffrey Haine, Production Supervisor: Arthur Alcott, Assistant Director: Clive Reed, Continuity: Marjorie Owens, Screenplay by: George Baxt, From the novel by: Derek Bickerton, Director of Photography: Ernest Steward, Camera Operator: Godfrey Godar, Film Editor: Tristam Cones, Art Director: Jack Shampan, Costumes: Morris Angel, Wardrobe: Vi Murray, Make-up: Trevor Crole-Rees, Hair Stylist: Maud Onslow, Titles by: Gil Kirk, Music Composed and Directed by: Reg Owen, The Song 'It Happens Every Day' by: Tony Osborne, The Song 'It Happens Every Day' Sung by: Eddie Ellis, Sound Recording: John W. Mitchell, Re-recording: Ken Cameron, Sound Editor: Lionel Selwyn, Acknowledgement: Authorities and Citizens of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and District, Made at: Independent Artists Studios
Cast (27)
Michael Craig (Johnny Mellors), Françoise Prévost (Katie Pearson), Billie Whitelaw (Jackie Parker), William Lucas (Dennis Pearson), Kenneth Griffith (Monty), Tom Bell (Blackie), Edward Cast (Detective Sergeant Bradden), Andrew Faulds (Detective Inspector Carberry), Barry Keegan (Bert Langridge), William Peacock (Harry Parker), Joan Rice (Madge Moore), Vanda Godsell (Doll), Glyn Houston (Frank Moore), Stanley Meadows (Bowen), Brian Mcdermott (Brent), Hugh Morton (Mr John), Michael Barrington (Hay), Bruce Beeby (Worth), Keith Faulkner (Alf), Murray Evans (Billy), Pauline Shepherd (secretary), Paddy Edwards (Beryl), Kevin Bennett (Archie Murdock), Mary Laura Wood (Mrs Murdock), Meadows White (Strange), Anthony Bate (policeman taking notes), Terence Soall