The Great Armored Car Swindle
The nephew of a printer gets involved with foreign spies intent on making counterfeit money. This is easily the best worst film ever - hilariously ludicrous plot - theoretically talented back up direc…
The Great Armored Car Swindle
The nephew of a printer gets involved with foreign spies intent on making counterfeit money. This is easily the best worst film ever - hilariously ludicrous plot - theoretically talented back up director Peter Medak; Peter Reynolds' wicked wig; character Peter de Savory named after an actual person; Dermot Walsh's badger hairstyle;,wickedly underrated Arnold Diamond as anxious diplomat. The best is saved till last: beautiful overviews of Gatwick Airport and its surrounding rural area (Creepy Crawley) preserved for all of us from 1961. A younger member of a security printing company gets into financial difficulty. His company is printing a run of new currency for a foreign country, and a dishonest national of that country wishes to subvert the currency, or simply to steal it; it isn't clear. The foreigner recruits the younger man with the offer of a lot of money and a new identity in his country, and he agrees to co-operate. He drives a van containing the newly printed money to Gatwick Airport for onward transport to the country, but he has arranged that the van will be robbed en route. There is a switch of the currency for something else, and the boxes containing the currency are to be blown up by a time bomb. —Hazel Freeman
The Great Armored Car Swindle
Crime,Drama
Film Details
The nephew of a printer gets involved with foreign spies intent on making counterfeit money. This is easily the best worst film ever - hilariously ludicrous plot - theoretically talented back up director Peter Medak; Peter Reynolds' wicked wig; character Peter de Savory named after an actual person; Dermot Walsh's badger hairstyle;,wickedly underrated Arnold Diamond as anxious diplomat. The best is saved till last: beautiful overviews of Gatwick Airport and its surrounding rural area (Creepy Crawley) preserved for all of us from 1961.
A younger member of a security printing company gets into financial difficulty. His company is printing a run of new currency for a foreign country, and a dishonest national of that country wishes to subvert the currency, or simply to steal it; it isn't clear. The foreigner recruits the younger man with the offer of a lot of money and a new identity in his country, and he agrees to co-operate.
He drives a van containing the newly printed money to Gatwick Airport for onward transport to the country, but he has arranged that the van will be robbed en route. There is a switch of the currency for something else, and the boxes containing the currency are to be blown up by a time bomb. —Hazel Freeman.