The Big Job

A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.

Cast

Sidney James

as George Brain

Sylvia Syms

as Myrtle Robbins

Dick Emery

as Frederick 'Booky' Binns

Joan Sims

as Mildred Gamely

Lance Percival

as Timothy 'Dipper' Day

Jim Dale

as Harold

Edina Ronay

as Sally Gamely

Deryck Guyler

as Police Sergeant

Reginald Beckwith

as Register Office Official

Brian Rawlinson

as Henry Blobbitt

Reviews

CinemaSerf

It's a sort of carry-on-criminal, this one - with a reliable cast of British actors - Sid James, Sylvia & Joan Sims and Lance Percival amongst the stalwarts who recount this rather daft story of a bank robbery that goes a bit wrong! They get caught, sent down for fifteen years and when they escape, ...

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