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7.0/10
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The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries.The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries.The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
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Did you know
- TriviaThe last film made at Ealing Studios, London.
- GoofsAbout 6 minutes in, there is a interior shot of the Night Watchman as he begins to leave the bank with the police. As he does so he puts a black glove onto his right hand. A second later there is an exterior shot of him exiting the bank with the black glove on his left hand.
- Quotes
[during the final chase, Halliday leaps onto the bonnet of the getaway car and stops it by smashing its windscreen with his truncheon; as it lurches to a halt, he falls off the bonnet onto the ground. Ward helps him up]
Detective-Sergeant Ward: Are you all right, sir?
Detective-Superintendent Tom Halliday: I'll live, I think.
Detective-Sergeant Ward: Nothing broken?
[Halliday pauses and looks mortified]
Detective-Superintendent Tom Halliday: Yes - a promise I made to let *other* people take the risks!
- Crazy creditsSPOILER: In the end credits Ursula Howells is credited twice: first as her fake character Mrs. Elliot, and then at the end as Mrs. Gilson, the wife of Gilson the criminal.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Those British Faces: A Tribute to Jack Hawkins 1910-1973 (1993)
Featured review
A logical story
Apart from the unique acting style of Jack Hawkins (before his so sad illness), one thing which marks this film out from modern detective yarns is that the detective work follows logical sequences - little depends on chance and nothing on fantastic coincidences.
It is a rattling good yarn - I only wish the same could be said of todays films.
And the supporting cast!!! Ian Bannen gets run over and killed and (Sir) Alec McCowan is an unimportant doctor. But everyone has to start somewhere.
Those were the days
Gerald (aged 72)
It is a rattling good yarn - I only wish the same could be said of todays films.
And the supporting cast!!! Ian Bannen gets run over and killed and (Sir) Alec McCowan is an unimportant doctor. But everyone has to start somewhere.
Those were the days
Gerald (aged 72)
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- Apr 4, 2002
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Treci kljuc
- Filming locations
- Pen-Y-Gwryd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK(Mr Thomas's garage where the newspaper was delivered)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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