The Hot Potato (2011)
Genre : Comedy, Crime
Runtime : 1H 36M
Director : Tim Lewiston
Synopsis
The 'Hot Potato' is an exciting new British period ‘caper movie’, in the spirit of ‘The Italian Job’ and ‘Two Way Stretch’ and is based on real events which took place at the end of the 1960s in London’s East End.
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