A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979)

Directed by

Ralph Thomas

Genre

heist film, crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 42m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of thieves plots one of the biggest bank robberies in London. The film follows their planning and execution of the heist.

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What happens

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (also known as The Biggest Bank Robbery, Mayfair Bank Caper and The Big Scam) is a 1980 British heist film directed by Ralph Thomas, written by Guy Elmes and starring Richard Jordan, Oliver Tobias and David Niven. It is subtitled "based on one of the biggest robberies in London". The film takes its name from the 1940 published song "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square". Ralph Thomas later said the film "had quite a superb cast" and "he was really quite fond" of the movie "but I didn't do it as well as I should have done because by the time we started it David was already sick, and so we had to do the best we could as quickly as we could and it didn't come off as I'd hoped. But it was still a fun film and we enjoyed making it." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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