The Great British Train Robbery
Cast & Crew
John Olden
Horst Tappert
Hans Cossy
Günter Neutze
Karl Heinz Hess
Hans Reiser
Film Details
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Synopsis
Hiding behind the respected guise of a London antique dealer, criminal mastermind Michael Donegan is lured into a scheme for robbing the Royal Mail Train of a fortune in banknotes. Heading a gang of 12 other seasoned professionals, Donegan, who has had wartime experience with military trains, carefully plans each detail of the crime, including the robbery of a small airport to finance the operation. Then, with everything in readiness, the men stop the mail train by triggering an electrical switch, board the locomotive, and uncouple it and the mail coach from the other cars. Once they have the banknotes, they make their way to their hideout, a farmhouse. Almost immediately they begin to argue about a method of concealment; but reaching no agreement, some of the men take their share of the loot and return to London. Scotland Yard, aided by the full cooperation of the news media, descends upon the farmhouse and discovers scores of fingerprints that lead to the arrest and conviction of 10 gang members. Donegan and two other men, however, are still at large; they are secretly meeting to plot the escapes, one by one, of their imprisoned colleagues.
Cast
Horst Tappert
Hans Cossy
Günter Neutze
Karl Heinz Hess
Hans Reiser
Rolf Nagel
Harry Engel
Wolfran Schaerf
Günther Tabor
Franz Mosthav
Wolfried Lier
Kurt Conradi
Horst Beck
Paul Edwin Roth
Kai Fischer
Siegfried Lowitz
Lothar Grutzner
Dirk Dautzenberg
Albert Hoerrmann
Grit Böttcher
Hannelore Schroth
Isa Miranda
Sylvia Lydi
Crew
Frank A. Banuscher
Horst Faahs
Heinz Funk
Gerald Gibbs
Oswald Hafenrichter
Bill Heddon
Oswald Hirschmann
Henry Kolarz
Mathias Matthies
Egon Monk
Egon Monk
Robert Muller
Gisela Quicker
Monika Tadsen-erfurth
Film Details
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Notes
Location scenes filmed in England. Produced in three 90 min segments for West German television in 1965 as Die Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse. May also be known in Germany as Der Postzug-Überfall. Based on the robbery of the Royal Mail Train on August 8, 1963.
