Based on a British TV play.
Premise
In London, a cracksman helps people in a firm help him with a robbery. Four men people are trapped after a robbery.
He tells the four that his gang is holding loved ones captive and
so the four must help him tunnel from their company into the vault of a nearby bank. If they don't cooperate, folks will die.
Cast
- Ken Goodlet as Dorell
- Alexander Archdale as Crawford
- Richard Davies asStone
- Lou Vernon as the nightwatchman Ellis
- Ken Hacker as Foley
- Laurie Lange as Constable Parker
- Max Meldrum as Saunrders
- Don Philips as Feliz Sergeant
Original TV Play
It was by Malcolm Haulke and Eric Paice. It aired in 1958 for British TV's Armchair Theatre starring Stanley Baker. A review is here.
Paice's play The Big Client was also filmed for Australian TV.
Rex Rienits liked it I think in 1960 he wrote to their agents asking for this and others.
Production
It was directed by Henri Safran, his last play before he left for a six-month overseas tour.
The production was shot in Sydney.
Reception
The Bulletin said it was "no Rififi but it was fairly good television drama, with a solid performance by Ken Goodlet." This was Frank Roberts who hated Australian writing - he attacked Manhaul, written for the commercial channels, in the same review.
The Woman's Weekly called it "well produced". LITV called it "a pallid, drawn out thing."
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LITV 13 Oct 1962 p 17
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