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Payroll

Payroll

6,8 /10 (32 Votes)
1961 EN 105 min

Overview

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.

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Release date

19/01/1961

Votes

32

Popularity

0.5

Brilliant... Brutal... Torn from tonight's headlines!

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Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

105 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2022-11-07

⭐ 7

Michael Craig is surprisingly effective in this British crime drama. He leads a nasty gang of hoodlums bent own robbing the poorly guarded payroll of a factory. Poorly guarded, that is, until - much to the gang's chagrin - they upgrade the protection to an armoured van. Determined to proceed, though, and after a nervous series of roadwork setbacks, they hit the van, steal the loot and the driver is killed. The widow - "Katie" (a solid performance from Françoise Prévost) is not for giving up, and agreeing with the police that the criminals must have had a man on the inside, she begins an invest…

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