The Criminal (1960)
- Starring:
- Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, (more)
- Director(s):
- Joseph Losey
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of The Criminal
Directed by American expatriate Joseph Losey, the British The Criminal is a gloom-wallow elevated by superb performances. Top crook Stanley Baker plans a clever bank robbery. It goes off hitchless, but the clerk responsible for "laundering" the stolen money insists upon a bigger percentage of the take, else he'll blow the whistle. Baker hides the money, whereupon he is turned over to the law by his ex-girlfriend, who is in cahoots with the clerk. Baker refuses to reveal the whereabouts of the loot, so his old gang arranges to have him broken out of jail -- and also arranges for Baker's "accidental" demise. Appearing as the greedy clerk in Concrete Jungle is Sam Wanamaker, who like Joseph Losey fled to England as a result of the Hollywood blacklist. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 92 mins
Complete Cast of The Criminal
- Stanley Baker - Johnny Bannion
- Gregoire Aslan - Frank Saffron
- Jill Bennett - Maggie
- Laurence Naismith - Mr. Town
- Noel Willman - Prison Governor
- Redmond Phillips - Prison Doctor
- Patrick Magee - Chief Warden, Barrows
- Patrick Wymark - Sol
- John Molloy - Snipe
- Paul Stassino - Alfredo Fanucci
- Tom Bell - Flynn
- Keith Smith - Hanson
- Larry Taylor - Charles
- Edward Judd - Young warder
- Thomas Eytle - West Indian Prisoner
- Tom Gerrard - Quantock
- Murray Melvin - Antlers
- Maxwell Shaw
- Roy Dotrice - Nicholls
- Sam Wanamaker - Mike Carter
- Margit Saad - Suzanne
- Rupert Davies - Mr. Edwards
- John Van Eyssen - Formby
- Derek Francis - Priest
- Kenneth J. Warren - Clobber
- Kenneth Cope - Kelly
- Jack Rodney - Scout
- Brian Phelan - Pauly Larkin
- Jerold Wells - Warder Brown
- Neil McCarthy - O'Hara
- Nigel Green - Ted
- Dorothy Bromiley - Angela
- Victor Beaumont - Men at Party
- Dickie Owen - 1st Man in Prison
- R.S.M. Brittain - Kitchen Warder
- Richard Shaw - Warder in Van
- Charles Lamb - Mr. Able
- Sydney Bromley - Frightened Prisoner
- Director(s):
- Joseph Losey
- Writer(s):
- Alun Owen, Jimmy Sangster
- Producer(s):
- Jack Greenwood
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