A pretty believable bunch of characters come together at the invitation of their old regimental colonel to preform a daring blank raid he once read in a novel.
Some pretty good performances by Hawkins, Bird, Kieron Moore, etc. Some pretty memorable scenes too: the inside of the police van at the end. The meeting in the hall with the ballet rehearsals going on upstairs, the grease-coated frying pan in Jack Hawkins's house.
The sudden introduction of the affable silly ass character at the end is a stroke of genius.
Watch out for Oliver Reed as the camp ballet dancer. He might have been unknown at the time; he might have only had one line: but he was still a STAR!
Some pretty good performances by Hawkins, Bird, Kieron Moore, etc. Some pretty memorable scenes too: the inside of the police van at the end. The meeting in the hall with the ballet rehearsals going on upstairs, the grease-coated frying pan in Jack Hawkins's house.
The sudden introduction of the affable silly ass character at the end is a stroke of genius.
Watch out for Oliver Reed as the camp ballet dancer. He might have been unknown at the time; he might have only had one line: but he was still a STAR!