Five to One | |
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Directed by | Gordon Flemyng |
Written by | Roger Marshall |
Based on | short story The Thief in the Night by Edgar Wallace |
Produced by | Jack Greenwood |
Starring | Lee Montague Ingrid Hafner John Thaw |
Cinematography | James Wilson |
Edited by | Derek Holding |
Music by | Bernard Ebbinghouse |
Production company | Merton Park Studios |
Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors |
Release date |
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Running time | 54 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Five To One is a 1963 British second feature ('B') [1] crime film directed by Gordon Flemyng and starring Lee Montague, Ingrid Hafner and John Thaw. [2] [3] It was made at Merton Park Studios as part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace adaptations. The screenplay was by Roger Marshall, based on the 1928 Wallace story The Thief in the Night. [4]
Alan Roper, along with his partner-in-crime and his girlfriend, are planning the robbery of a betting shop. Alan asks crooked bookmaker Larry Hart to launder the money, but little does Larry know, it's his betting shop they plan to steal from.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Straightforward in acting and presentation, the main interest of this compact film lies in its plot line; again adapted from one of Edgar Wallace's less familiar stories, it is an involved but neatly contrived variation on the Great Robbery Plan which has featured in so many films. The development is sufficiently intriguing to maintain interest, and though the film has no other real virtue, it emerges as a slightly above average addition to the now well-established Edgar Wallace series." [5]
Ingrid Hafner was a British actress, born in London. Her father was Raoul Hafner, an Austrian helicopter pioneer, and her mother Eileen Myra McAdam was a descendant of Scottish-born John Loudon McAdam, the road builder.
Gordon William Flemyng was a Scottish television and film director. He was also a writer and producer. He directed six theatrical features, several television films and numerous episodes of television series, some of which he also wrote and produced.
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