The Big Job - Film - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

The Big Job. Image shows from L to R: Bank Cashier (Frank Forsyth), George 'The Great Brain' (Sid James). Copyright: Anglo Amalgamated

Genre

Film

Released

1965

Creator

John Antrobus

Stars

Sid James, Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery, Joan Sims, Lance Percival, Jim Dale, Edina Ronay, Deryck Guyler and more

Writer

Talbot Rothwell

Director

Gerald Thomas

Producer

Peter Rogers

Company

Sid James, Lance Percival and Dick Emery star as a gang of unarmed bank robbers. Following a botched getaway, they are caught by the police and sentenced to 15 years manual labour - but not before George 'The Great' Brain stashes the £50,000 haul in the hollow of a tree trunk.

Upon their release they set out to recover the cash, but find that a new town, Oldfield, has been built in the middle of the countryside, and that the hollow tree is now right in the middle of a police station's yard!

Additional details

UK certificate

U

Duration

85 minutes

Distributors

Anglo Amalgamated

Production

Studio

Picture

Black and white

Broadcast details

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