Calculated Risk (film)

Experience bank robber Kip plans to rob a bank by tunnelling through from a basement of a bomb-site next to a bank.[3] He is too old and ill to do it himself and finds three others to do it.

Three crooks enter the basement of an empty building next to the Westland bank through a trap door and break through the soft dividing the properties but are shocked when they find an unexploded 500lb bomb from the war.

They plant explosives into the rear wall of the bank vault. Just after breaking in they spot the bomb is ticking. As they escape a concrete lintel falls on one man. Kip has come to see how they are progressing. The other two run off leaving Kip to rescue the man. One tells a neighbouring house to evacuate and the police arrive.

Kip frees the man but dies of a heart attack. Just as the freed man reaches the trap door the bomb explodes.

• William Lucas as Steve
• John Rutland as Kip
• Dilys Watling as Julie
• Shay Gorman as Dodo
• Terence Cooper as Nodge
• David Brierly as Ron
• Warren Mitchell as Simmie
• Vincent Charles as Mr Salting
• Harry Landis as Charlie
• John G. Heller as Police Inspector
• Peter Welch as Police Sergeant
• Brian Cobby as Police Constable

TV Guide concluded "British crime melodrama has little going for it";[4] Radio Times praised Warren Mitchell's cameo, but called the film a "tatty little drama";[3] whereas Mystery File wrote "The script is tight, the vivid black-and-white photography perfect for the tale that’s told, and even though none of the actors are known in this country – and maybe not even in England – they all fit their characters well, and what more could you want?"[5]

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