Payroll (1961)

NR01/19/1961Crime, Drama1h 45m
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Brilliant... Brutal... Torn from tonight's headlines!

Overview

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Michael Craig

    Johnny Mellors

  2. Cast 1

    Françoise Prévost

    Katie Pearson

  3. Cast 1

    Billie Whitelaw

    Jackie Parker

  4. Cast 1

    William Lucas

    Dennis Pearson

  5. Cast 1

    Kenneth Griffith

    Monty

  6. Cast 1

    Tom Bell

    Blackie

  7. Barry Keegan

    Bert Langridge

  8. Edward Cast

    Detective Sergeant Bradden

  9. Cast 1

    Andrew Faulds

    Detective Inspector Carberry

Michael Craig is surprisingly effective in this British crime drama. He leads a nasty gang of hoodlums bent own robbing the poorly guarded payroll of a factory. Poorly guarded, that is, until - much to the gang's chagrin - they upgrade the protection to an armoured van. Determined to proceed, though, and after a nervous series of roadwork setbacks, they hit the van, steal the loot and the driver is killed. The widow - "Katie" (a solid performance from Françoise Prévost) is not for giving up, and agreeing with the police that the criminals must have had a man on the inside, she begins an invest...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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