Summaries

The nephew of a printer gets involved with foreign spies intent on making counterfeit money.

This is easily the best worst film ever - hilariously ludicrous plot - theoretically talented back up director Peter Medak; Peter Reynolds' wicked wig; character Peter de Savory named after an actual person; Dermot Walsh's badger hairstyle;,wickedly underrated Arnold Diamond as anxious diplomat. The best is saved till last: beautiful overviews of Gatwick Airport and its surrounding rural area (Creepy Crawley) preserved for all of us from 1961.

A younger member of a security printing company gets into financial difficulty. His company is printing a run of new currency for a foreign country, and a dishonest national of that country wishes to subvert the currency, or simply to steal it; it isn't clear. The foreigner recruits the younger man with the offer of a lot of money and a new identity in his country, and he agrees to co-operate. He drives a van containing the newly printed money to Gatwick Airport for onward transport to the country, but he has arranged that the van will be robbed en route. There is a switch of the currency for something else, and the boxes containing the currency are to be blown up by a time bomb.—Hazel Freeman

Details

Keywords
  • spy
  • based on novel
  • independent film
Genres
  • Crime
  • Drama
Release date Dec 31, 1960
Countries of origin United Kingdom
Language English
Filming locations Walton Studios, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UK
Production companies Butcher's Film Distributors

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 59m
Color Black and White
Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1

Synopsis

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