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Five to One (film)

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Five to One
Feature film poster
Directed byGordon Flemyng
Written byRoger Marshall
Based onshort story The Thief in the Night by Edgar Wallace
Produced byJack Greenwood
StarringLee Montague
Ingrid Hafner
John Thaw
CinematographyJames Wilson
Edited byDerek Holding
Music byBernard Ebbinghouse
Production
company
Merton Park Studios
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors
Release date
  • 1963 (1963)
Running time
54 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Five To One is a 1963 British second feature ('B')[1] crime film directed by Gordon Flemyng and starring Lee Montague, Ingrid Hafner and John Thaw.[2][3] It was made at Merton Park Studios as part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace adaptations. The screenplay was by Roger Marshall, based on the 1928 Wallace story The Thief in the Night.[4]

Plot

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Alan Roper, along with his partner-in-crime and his girlfriend, are planning the robbery of a betting shop. Alan asks crooked bookmaker Larry Hart to launder the money, but little does Larry know, it's his betting shop they plan to steal from.

Cast

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Critical reception

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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Straightforward in acting and presentation, the main interest of this compact film lies in its plot line; again adapted from one of Edgar Wallace's less familiar stories, it is an involved but neatly contrived variation on the Great Robbery Plan which has featured in so many films. The development is sufficiently intriguing to maintain interest, and though the film has no other real virtue, it emerges as a slightly above average addition to the now well-established Edgar Wallace series."[5]

References

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  1. ^ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 239. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. ^ "Five to One". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  3. ^ "Five to One (1963) - Gordon Flemyng | Cast and Crew". AllMovie.
  4. ^ Five To One (1963) British Board of Film Classification
  5. ^ "Five to One". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 31 (360): 39. 1 January 1964 – via ProQuest.
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