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.
Genre
Crime, Comedy
Director
Basil Dearden
Cast
Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes
