The Harassed Hero (1954)
Жанр : комедия, триллер
Время выполнения : 1Ч 1М
Директор : Maurice Elvey
Писатель : Brock Williams
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Poor Mr. Murray Selwyn (Guy Middleton)! He's suffering from 'Acute Apprehension Complex' and his doctors have strongly recommended that he avoid any stress or excitement in his life. Unfortunately -- thanks to a chance encounter in a London taxi cab -- he now finds himself at the very centre of an explosive international criminal caper and his life is filled with suitcases full of hot money, desperate gunmen and vanishing bodies! More dangerous still, he's been cared for by the rather ravishing Nurse Brook (Joan Winmill Brown) -- a girl guaranteed to stimulate any red-blooded English gentleman! How much excitement can one man take?
Джошу Ковачу не повезло — его поимел злобный финансист, живущий в роскошных аппартаментах на верхнем этаже небоскреба. Чтобы вернуть деньги, Джош с друзьями решается на грандиозную кражу со взломом. Но одним им это не под силу, и они обращаются к матерому преступнику. Дело за малым — шесть новоявленных друзей Джоушена должны пробраться в пентхаус и отыскать 200 миллионов долларов.
Братья Блум - лучшие аферисты в мире, уводят деньги у миллионеров по сложным сценариям, полных похоти и интриг. Младший брат, устав от бесконечных авантюр, желает отойти от дел и начать "настоящую" жизнь, на что старший предлагает ему свой последний план.
Троих неудачников-недотеп приглашает к себе незнакомец и предлагает обучиться воровскому ремеслу. На первом же «деле» воришки засыпаются и попадают в тюрьму. После отсидки их дела идут успешнее, и дядя готовит для них «ограбление века» на 5 миллиардов! Но недотепы — они и в Африке недотепы. Даже с огромной суммой денег, которую не могут удержать…
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.
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 Harrowhouse.
Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry, together with Harry's fiancée Doris, are in Mallorca while Sickan is still in Stockholm. However, Wall-Enberg talks him into doing a break-in at Las Palmas cathedral in Mallorca. Once persuaded, he can't resist the temptation and travels to Mallorca as well. However, Wall-Enberg obviously can't be trusted. Sickan is framed, caught and put in jail. While being escorted home to Sweden again, Vanheden and Harry sets up a plan to break him free. Sickan, once free, wants payback. The gang discover that an antiques dealer called Germann has something to do with the whole thing and that she's also collaborating with Wall-Enberg. The gang then decide to take a closer look at her and her antiques and they discover that there's a heist being planned against the cathedral in Palma.
Хотите знать, как все было на самом деле? На самом деле все подвиги, приписанные Александром Дюма трем мушкетерам и Д`Артаньяну, совершены их слугами — Планше, Гримо, Базеном и Мушкетоном.
Desperate for a real news story, entertainment journalist Mui goes to London to cover an antique auction in order to trace the path of Nine-Tailed Fox, a famous art thief who has eluded capture for decades. Playful, but clever, the Fox decides to use Mui as his partner for his latest heist, a set of pottery horse from the Tang Dynasty. What the Fox doesn't know is that Mui is secretly working with Cheung Ho, a Hong Kong cop that has been obsessed with catching the Fox since letting him escape years ago. The result is a twist-filled pursuit that takes the trio from London to Prague.
An English shoe salesman inherits 6 million dollars from a recently deceased uncle he has never met before, on the condition that he takes the uncle's corpse on a trip to Monte Carlo.
A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from her collection. Complications ensue.
Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin.
When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.
Питер Чёрчман, в прошлом - грабитель банков, а теперь - состоятельный джентльмен в тихом испанском городке, вынужден вновь собрать старую команду, чтобы совершить самое невозможное ограбление в своей преступной карьере - ограбить банк в Памплоне прямо во время фиесты Сан-Фермин с её знаменитым Энсьерро - бегом быков.
South African crime/comedy movie. Forced to spend the night at a creepy old holiday resort, two wannabe gangsters run into trouble when, unpacking the car, their box of cash splits open, spilling a million bucks in eye-catching bundles all over the driveway
A troupe of former circus performers plot to steel a valuable artifact from an embassy in Washington, DC.
When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance -- only to find that the will has mysteriously gone missing. As his greedy relatives try to seize the estate, George gets the help of a movie star (Greta Gynt), a window cleaner (James Hayter and a police inspector (Herbert Ross) to track down the missing will. It seems that justice will prevail -- but is George Wescott really George Wescott?
