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This rollicking crime thriller gets off to a pulsating start with Norrie Paramor s spot on theme music, featuring a guitar solo from The Shadows Hank Marvin and with a camera placed in a front of a car covering half the perimeter of Soho where the action (and there s a lot of it) takes place.
This is 1960! The protection racket ‘business’ was in its heyday and Reggie and Ronnie Kray were in their prime. We witness a ‘little drinker’ - that is to say a private members club, being smashed up because the proprietor has been remiss with his dues. It must be said that the gang of extortionists led by Frankie Farmer (played by Patrick Jordan and not to be confused with
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Peter Cushing and a host of other much-loved British talent star in this Cold War thriller from 1960, here playing researchers who unexpectedly find themselves ‘silenced’ by government officials who conclude that a newly discovered cure for both typhus and the bubonic plague could be used for biological warfare by enemy states.
At London’s Haughton Research Laboratory a hard working team of scientists, led by Professor Sewell (the always dependable Peter Cushing), come very close to developing a certain strain of ‘superbugs’ that could nip world plagues in the bud so to speak (perhaps, we could do with them now). Low and behold they come up trumps but when the good professor is anxious to publish the results he is called to the office of Minister of Defence Sir George Gatting (Raymond Huntley). This outwardly respectable but in truth far from lovable authority figure informs Sewell just how dangerous it would be to publish his scientific breakthrough discover
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What’s it about?
Payroll is a classic crime film involving the robbery of a high-tech payroll van in a moody Newcastle setting. In typical heist movie fashion, the drama comes from the fallout of the botched job. However, there’s a refreshing grittiness to the plot, filled with double crosses and brutality. The robbery itself is one of the most savage seen on British screens.
Who’s in it?
As with many British crime films of the 1960s, the cast is incredibly strong. The villainous ensemble surrounding the main crime is led by Michael Craig, Tom Bell, Kenneth Griffith and Barry Keegan. Alongside these we have a femme fatale in the form of French actress Françoise Prévost, as well as a powerful role for a young Billie Whitelaw. Any fans of classic British film and television will have a field day spotting the performers filling the film’s smaller roles, most notably an uncredited appearance from Anthony Bate.
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