The League of Gentlemen (film)

The League Of Gentlemen was a 1959 English crime film directed by Basil Dearden[?] and starring Jack Hawkins[?] and Nigel Patrick[?] with Terence Alexander[?], Richard Attenborough, Norman Bird[?], Bryan Forbes[?], Roger Livesey[?] and Kieron Moore[?]. It was based on the 1958 novel by John Boland[?] and was adapted by Boland and Bryan Forbes[?]. The film was made through Allied Film Makers[?] in just two months and it was distributed by the Rank Organization[?]. It premiered in 1960.

The basis of the plot is a group of ex-Army officers rob a bank with a very military and effective plan. It was one of the first English films to have all the elements of the successful 1950s US heist films, although with a distinctly English tinge.

The film was the most successful in Britain of 1960.