Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.

Jack Hawkins
as Hyde

Nigel Patrick
as Race

Roger Livesey
as Mycroft

Richard Attenborough
as Lexy

Bryan Forbes
as Porthill

Kieron Moore
as Stevens

Terence Alexander
as Rupert

Norman Bird
as Weaver

Robert Coote
as Bunny Warren

Melissa Stribling
as Peggy
John Chard
These Gentlemen are indeed extraordinary. The League of Gentlemen is directed by Basil Deardon and adapted to screenplay by Bryan Forbes from the novel written by John Boland. Forbes himself stars alongside Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough, Roger Livesey, Kieron Moore, Terence Al...