League of Gentlemen (1960)
A large cast of familiar faces from post war British cinema including Richard Attenborough star in this crime caper. After reading a crime novel a former British Army officer brings together a collection of scoundrels that were all dismissed from the army and they set about trying to rob a bank.
While this is not an especially tense crime film it is fairly well made and has a light hearted tone that helps soften the viewers feelings towards what is essentially a group of rather nasty individuals. These days you would get a film about a group of cockney wide boys so it is a refreshing change of pace for the film to be about a slightly higher class of criminal for once even if the protagonists are all have thoroughly disgraced pasts.
3/5 solid if not out standing effort.
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