The title gives away the plot in this fast-moving British caper film that tips its hat to RIFIFI. Instead of ending with a chase, this movie begins with one. Baker is the brains behind the scheme. He engineers a jewelry theft in order to raise the needed money to embark on his ultimate
robbery, the heisting of 3 million pounds from a mail train going from Glasgow to London. As is usually the case in this genre, Baker has to gather a group of experts in their fields to help with the crime. The first 20 minutes of the film has almost no dialog as Baker steals a car, robs the
jewels, then eludes the cops. Whereas the theft sequence in RIFIFI has no words and no music,...
Released:
1967
Rated:
NR
Length:
114 mins