The Flying Scot (film)

A gang plans to steal a half-a-million pounds' worth of banknotes from an express train.

• Lee Patterson – Ronnie
• Kay Callard – Jackie
• Alan Gifford – Phil
• Gerald Case – Guard
• Jeremy Bodkin – Charlie, the boy
• Mark Baker – Gibbs
• Geoffrey Bodkin – Neat boy
• John Dearth – Father
• Kerry Jordan – Drunk
• John Lee – Young man
• Patsy Smart – Mother
• Margaret Withers – Middle-aged lady
• Margaret Gordon – Drunk's Wife

TV Guide wrote, "The suspense is well built in this finely constructed feature":[3] while Sky Movies called it "An unheralded low-budget thriller which contains twice as much suspense as many more lavish productions. Taut, crisp, with a conspicuous absence of big name stars, it is a prime example of the British B movie at its best. With a bit of Hitchcock here and a touch of Rififi there (a 15-minute sequence is acted in complete silence), the suspense is built up to a climax which leaves one hoping that just this once, crime will be allowed to pay."[4]

It was one of 15 films selected by Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane in The British 'B' Film, their survey of British B films, as among the most meritorious of the B films made in Britain between World War II and 1970. They note that it was shot in just three weeks on a budget of £18,000 and describe it as "a film not just of suspense, but of real fascination".[5]

• The Flying Scot at IMDb