This is a film that i remembered well from the time that i first saw it at my local cinema back in 1963.it has been shown on TV and now i am pleased to report it has been released on DVD.
Sadly dull heist thriller has THE BREAK baddie William Lucas in one of the most Noir-sounding Brit titles, CALCULATED RISK, a hybrid of THE ASPHALT JUNGLE as a newly released old short guy has a big plan for a big heist (John Rutland doing Sam Jaffe) and LARCENY INC since they have to dig under two locations to reach their targeted goal...Which aren't stores but bombed-out houses from twenty-years past, leading to a lucrative bank vault, and Lucas, as a sophisticated businessman who really doesn't need the bread, heads up a group of fellas about as classy and, alas, uninteresting, none of them seeming a fitful lot for a crime caper or movie...
This one isn't that well known. It has to be caught every now and then (Probably in an obscure plot on a TV channel).
Relentlessly grim Brit caper movie, from the dying days of the black and white B era. A gang of villains plot to rob a bank by tunnelling through the cellar of an adjacent bombed house.
Tightly plotted, suspenseful minor British crime thriller about an ex-con who leads a group of safecrackers to break into a bank vault through the cellar of an adjacent deserted building, only to find more than they had bargained for (namely an unexploded WWII bomb). Decent performances by Warren Mitchell and William Lucas, and a taut script by Edwin Richfield (a well known British character actor of the 60s) make this worth a watch.
Brilliant winter 1963 movie where the lead character and gang mastermind, played by William Lucas, comes unstuck by a combination of his greed for wanting his robbery to succeed and his sympathy for the partner in crime who suffers a last minute coronary and is therefore sidelined. Much attention is paid to the catering arrangements for our crooks: pork pies; gallons of tea; the pound of aforementioned sausages; and the poor Irishman gets his booze confiscated.
A neat little perfect plan gone awry film. At first one thinks you are watching a low rent re-hash of "THE ASPHALT JUNGLE".
CALCULATED RISK is a fine little British B-picture about a gang of criminals plotting a major heist. What's so special about that, you might ask; you'd be well within your rights to do so, given that the same set-up propelled about a hundred of these pictures during the era.
