The Informers (1963)

NR11/29/1963Crime1h 45m
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Yard In Big Hunt For Bank Robbers

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Nigel Patrick

    Chief Insp. John Edward Johnnoe

  2. Cast 1

    Katherine Woodville

    Mary Johnnoe

  3. Cast 1

    Colin Blakely

    Charlie Ruskin

  4. Cast 1

    Derren Nesbitt

    Bertie Hoyle

  5. Cast 1

    Harry Andrews

    Supt. Alec Bestwick

  6. Cast 1

    Roy Kinnear

    Shorty

  7. Margaret Whiting

    Maisie Barton

  8. John Cowley

    Jim Ruskin

  9. Cast 1

    Allan Cuthbertson

    Smythe

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) t...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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