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The Breaking Point (1961)

The Breaking Point poster
Directed by
Lance Comfort
Genre
crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 02m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man gets involved in a plan to steal an armored car. The scheme goes wrong and puts him in danger.

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What happens

The Breaking Point (also known as The Great Armored Car Swindle for the US release) is a 1961 second feature British crime film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Peter Reynolds, Dermot Walsh, Joanna Dunham and Lisa Gastoni. The screenplay was by Peter Lambert based on the 1957 novel by Laurence Meynell. It was one of several British crime films starring Reynolds. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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