Payroll (1961)

Directed by

Sidney Hayers

Genre

heist film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of criminals plot and carry out a payroll heist. The robbery goes wrong and leads to disastrous consequences for everyone involved.

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What happens

Payroll is a 1961 British neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, and Billie Whitelaw. The screenplay by George Baxt was adapted from Derek Bickerton's 1959 novel of the same name. The film revolves around a group of criminals who plan and execute a wages robbery, which ultimately ends in disaster. The movie is one of the most highly regarded crime films from Anglo-Amalgamated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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