Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
- widow
- dark comedy
- parrot
- gang of thieves
- money
- criminal
- old lady
- landlady
- planning
- steam locomotive
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Alec Guinness
Professor Marcus
Cecil Parker
Claude, alias 'Major Courtney'
Herbert Lom
Louis, alias 'Mr. Harvey'
Peter Sellers
Harry, alias 'Mr. Robinson'
- Danny Green — 'One-Round', alias 'Mr. Lawson'
- Katie Johnson — Mrs. Wilberforce
- Jack Warner — The Superintendent
- Philip Stainton — The Sergeant
- Frankie Howerd — The Barrow Boy
- Madge Brindley — Large Lady (uncredited)
- Hélène Burls — Hypatia (uncredited)
- Kenneth Connor — Cab Driver (uncredited)
- Michael Corcoran — Burglar (uncredited)
- Harold Goodwin — Parcels Clerk (uncredited)
- Fred Griffiths — Junk Man (uncredited)
- Directed
- Alexander Mackendrick
- Written
- William Rose
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 553 ratings
- Studio
- Ealing Studios, Michael Balcon Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
