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The Informers (1963)

NR 11/29/1963 Crime 1h 45m
68%
User
Score
6.9/10

Yard In Big Hunt For Bank Robbers

Overview

When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.

Ken Annakin

Director

Paul Durst

Writer

Alun Falconer

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Nigel Patrick

Nigel Patrick

Chief Insp. John Edward Johnnoe

Katherine Woodville

Katherine Woodville

Mary Johnnoe

Colin Blakely

Colin Blakely

Charlie Ruskin

Derren Nesbitt

Derren Nesbitt

Bertie Hoyle

Harry Andrews

Harry Andrews

Supt. Alec Bestwick

Roy Kinnear

Roy Kinnear

Shorty

Margaret Whiting

Margaret Whiting

Maisie Barton

John Cowley

John Cowley

Jim Ruskin

Allan Cuthbertson

Allan Cuthbertson

Smythe

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on February 12, 2023

Nigel Patrick is effective as a Scotland Yard chief inspector on the trail of a sophisticated gang responsible for a Whitechapel bank robbery. "Johnnoe" is getting close. His meticulous, no-nonsense, style of investigation is leading him close to Frank Finlay's "Sale" whom we know from the outset is a lynchpin in the criminal organisation. The criminals are no slouches, though, and they cleverly arrange to set-up the policeman and have him disgraced and suspended. Now it falls to his wife "Mary" (Katherine Woodville) and the brother of one of the gang's other victims "Ruskin" (Colin Blakely) to get to the bottom of the frame, the crime and the murder before it's too late. It's maybe just a bit too long, but once we get going it's a well made and paced crime drama that puts together a stron...

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