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Summary

When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.

Cast

Nigel Patrick

Chief Insp. John Edward Johnnoe

Katherine Woodville

Mary Johnnoe

Colin Blakely

Charlie Ruskin

Derren Nesbitt

Bertie Hoyle

Harry Andrews

Supt. Alec Bestwick

Roy Kinnear

Shorty

Margaret Whiting

Maisie Barton

John Cowley

Jim Ruskin

Allan Cuthbertson

Smythe

Frank Finlay

Leon Sale

Michael Coles

Ben

Ronald Hines

Geoff Lewis

Peter Prowse

Mick Lonergan

George Sewell

Fred Hill

Kenneth J. Warren

Lou Waites

Brian Wilde

Lipson

Peter Bowles

Peter The Pole (uncredited)

Donal Donnelly

Tommy The Trotter (uncredited)

Harry Landis

Hicks (uncredited)

Bernard Goldman

Hymie (uncredited)

Fred Haggerty

Hoyle's Henchman (uncredited)

Peter Brace

Ruskin's Henchman (uncredited)

George Hilsdon

Ruskin's Henchman (uncredited)

Faye Craig

Black Woman (uncredited)

Geoffrey Dunn

Man with Camera (uncredited)

Garfield Morgan

Police Inspector (uncredited)

Geoffrey Denton

Police Inspector (uncredited)

Patrick Jordan

Police Inspector (uncredited)

Ray Smith

Police Sergeant (uncredited)

Donald Tandy

Police Sergeant (uncredited)

Martin Wyldeck

Police Officer (uncredited)

Joe Beckett

Police Officer (uncredited)

William Baskiville

Police Officer (uncredited)

Arthur Howell

Police Officer (uncredited)

Alan Meacham

Police Officer (uncredited)

Colin McKenzie

Detective (uncredited)

Joe Wadham

Police Driver (uncredited)

David Weston

Young Constable (uncredited)

Michael Segal

Customer at Club (uncredited)

Roy Godfrey

Barman (uncredited)

Peter Evans

Pub customer (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Ken Annakin

Novel

Douglas Warner

Writer

Alun Falconer

Writer

Paul Durst

Reviews

Geronimo1967

February 12, 2023

Nigel Patrick is effective as a Scotland Yard chief inspector on the trail of a sophisticated gang responsible for a Whitechapel bank robbery. "Johnnoe" is getting close. His meticulous, no-nonsense, style of investigation is leading him close to Frank Finlay's "Sale" whom we know from the outset is a lynchpin in the criminal organisation. The criminals are no slouches, though, and they cleverly arrange to set-up the policeman and have him disgraced and suspended. Now it falls to his wife "Mary" (Katherine Woodville) and the brother of one of the gang's other victims "Ruskin" (Colin Blakely) to get to the bottom of the frame, the crime and the murder before it's too late. It's maybe just a bit too long, but once we get going it's a well made and paced crime drama that puts together a strong cast of familiar faces and makes good use of a decent story to set up an action packed fisticuff denouement.