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The Big Job
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Gerald Thomas Director
- 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
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