Cash on Demand

A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal £90,000.

Cast

Peter Cushing

as Harry Fordyce

André Morell

as Colonel Gore Hepburn (as Andre Morell)

Richard Vernon

as Pearson

Norman Bird

as Arthur Sanderson

Kevin Stoney

as Detective Inspector Mason

Barry Lowe

as Peter Harvill

Edith Sharpe

as Miss Pringle

Lois Daine

as Sally

Alan Haywood

as Kane

Jimmy Cains

as Sidewalk Santa Claus (uncredited)

Reviews

John Chard

Cash on Delivery? Pah! This is Cash on Demand! Out of Hammer Film Productions, Cash on Demand is directed by Quentin Lawrence and adapted to screenplay by David Chantler & Lewis Greifer from a play by Jacques Gillies. It stars Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Richard Vernon, Norman Bird and Kevin St...

CinemaSerf

If anyone was ever to wonder upon whom Arthur Lowe might have based his "Capt. Mainwaring" from "Dad's Army" character on, then they might look at Peter Cushing here in this superior heist thriller. He is the fastidious, frankly rather obnoxious, bank manager who runs his branch without any regard a...

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