Five to One
Alan Roper tells Bookie Larry Hart that he is planning to steal £60,000 and Hart offers to launder the money for him. What Hart doesn't know is that it is actually his money Roper intends to steal.
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- Cast：
- Lee Montague , Ingrid Hafner , John Thaw , Jack Watson , Julian Holloway , Gordon Rollings , Edina Ronay
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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
John Thaws character reminded me slightly of George Cole in Too Many Crookston. He always seems to be making the wrong decision and his plans always go wrong.I still can't understand the logic of not taking the money from the bookies safe.It is certainly one of the more entertaining in the seriex
That's a long time now I have not commented an Edgard Wallace Mystery series episode. This one is perfectly in the line of the other shows. Complex, not too hard to follow however, a story of petty crooks who try and succeed to cheat one each other. Very well built, fast paced, we can watch here the young John Thaw, the famous inspector Reagan, from SWEENEY TV series, made in the seventies. He plays here a petty thief. It is directed by the curious Gordon Flemyng, who gave us some TV stuff including some AVENGERS episodes, Daleks adventures films - I never saw and never will - and also a surprising US thriller adapted from Richard Stark - Donald Westlake - THE SPLIT, starring Jim Brown, Gene Hackman and Donald Sutherland. Don't forget THE LAST GRENADE either, a rather good action flick starring Stanley Baker.I never saw from him THE GREAT CATHERINE.Back to this little crime movie, worth a look for gem lovers as I am.