The Informers

10/13/19651h 45m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ 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.

Director:

Ken Annakin

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

blackmail
detective
bank robbery

Cast

Nigel Patrick

~ as ~

Chief Insp. John Edward Johnnoe

Katherine Woodville

~ as ~

Mary Johnnoe

Colin Blakely

~ as ~

Charlie Ruskin

Derren Nesbitt

~ as ~

Bertie Hoyle

Harry Andrews

~ as ~

Supt. Alec Bestwick

Roy Kinnear

~ as ~

Shorty

Margaret Whiting

~ as ~

Maisie Barton

John Cowley

~ as ~

Jim Ruskin

Allan Cuthbertson

~ as ~

Smythe

Frank Finlay

~ as ~

Leon Sale

View full cast & crew

Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
7
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 strong cast of familiar faces and makes good use of a decent story to set up an action packed fisticuff denouement.