The Big Job (film)

Infobox Film
name = The Big Job


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director = Gerald Thomas
producer = Frank Bevis
Peter Rogers
writer = John Antrobus
Talbot Rothwell
starring = Sid James
Dick Emery
Joan Sims
Sylvia Syms
Jim Dale
Lance Percival
music = Eric Rogers
cinematography = Alan Hume
editing = Rod Nelson-Keys
distributor = Warner-Pathé Distributors
released = 1965
runtime = 85 min.
country = U.K.
language = English
budget =
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imdb_id = 0058969

"The Big Job" is a British comedy film. It was first released in 1965 . [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058969/plotsummary The Big Job (1965) - Plot summary ] ] Its principal star is Sid James, supported by Dick Emery, Joan Sims, Sylvia Syms, Jim Dale and Lance Percival.

Directed by Gerald Thomas, Produced by Peter Rogers, Music by Eric Rogers and starring many well known stars, it's a Carry On, but without the famous title.

Plot

England, 1950. A gang of robbers led by the self-proclaimed Great Brain George (Sid James) rob a bank, stealing £50,000. However, due to a mix-up, they are pursued and caught by the police. He manages to stash away the money in the trunk of a hollow tree, before he is collared. The gang are then sentenced to serve fifteen years in Wormwood Scrubs prison.

Upon their release in 1965, the gang go back to the spot where they had left the money, only to find it is now a new town, and a housing estate has been built around the tree. To their chagrin they find that the tree is now in the grounds of the local police station, invitingly close to the wall. George and his gang take up rooms in a nearby house rented by a widow and her daughter. In order to provide a respectable front, George is forced to marry his long-term girlfriend Mrytle (Sylvia Sims) who is not so enamoured about the idea of recovering the loot, and wants George to settle down with her.

The incompetent criminals fail in their numerous attempts to get over and under the wall, all the while trying to conceal their true activities from their landlady, her daughter and a local police constable (Jim Dale) who also stays there. Eventually when the men have botched an attempt to tunnel into the grounds, the frustrated woman hatch their own plot to gain the money.

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*imdb title|0058969