The Day They Robbed the Bank of England *** (1960, Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O’Toole, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7754

The IRA plot to upset the English economy at the turn of the last century in 1901 by sending in a three man crew to steal all the Bank of England’s loot of gold in its vaults by way of an old London sewer, in director John Guillermin’s entertaining 1960 British comedy crime drama The Day They Robbed the Bank of England. Though perhaps low on thrills, it is an amusing and well-detailed movie.

Peter O’Toole scores strongly in his third film as the dim guards officer Captain Monty Fitch on the trail of the crooks, while Aldo Ray is solid as the American mercenary Charles Norgate who helps the Irish rebels. The screenplay by Howard Clewes and Richard Maibaum is based on John Brophy’s novel.

Also in the cast are Elizabeth Sellars, Kieron Moore, Albert Sharpe, Hugh Griffith, John le Mesurier, Joseph Tomelty, Miles Malleson, Andrew Keir, Erik Chitty, Charles Lloyd-Pack, Frederick Piper, Colin Gordon, Michael Brennan and Peter Myers.

© Derek Winnert 2018 Classic Movie Review 7754

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