The Safecracker

The Safecracker

🎞️ Movie 96 min GB
โ˜… 6.0 /10 1958

The crook who became a commando

An honest expert on locks, Colley Dawson turns safe-cracker after he meets Benny Carfield, unscrupulous dealer in antiques; Dawson steals the goods and Carfield disposes of them, and the resulting profits enable Dawson to lead a double life with small-part film actress Vi. Scotland Yard catches up with him and Dawson is sentenced to ten years in prison. Two years later, in 1940, England is at war with Germany, and the War Office, planning a raid on a German-occupied château in Belgium, is looking for a man who can crack a difficult safe so that the contents, containing lists of Nazi agents in Britain, can be photographed without leaving a trace of the operation. Dawson, in exchange for the eight years of prison awaiting him, agrees to do the job. He, of course, also gets involved with the daughter, Irene, of the local resistance leader.

Cast

Ray Milland
Ray Milland
Colley Dawson
Barry Jones
Barry Jones
Bennett Carfield
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Jeanette Sterke
Irene
Victor Maddern
Victor Maddern
Morris
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Ernest Clark
Major Adbury
Cyril Raymond
Cyril Raymond
Inspector Frankham
Melissa Stribling
Melissa Stribling
Angela
Percy Herbert
Percy Herbert
Sergeant Harper
Barbara Everest
Barbara Everest
Mrs. Dawson
Anthony Nicholls
Anthony Nicholls
General Prior
Richard Rodney Bennett
Richard Rodney Bennett
Composer
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Gerald Gibbs
Cinematographer