The burglars do the honors
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| German title | The burglars do the honors |
| Original title | The League of Gentlemen |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | about 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Basil Dearden |
| script | Bryan Forbes |
| production | Michael Relph |
| music | Philip Green |
| camera | Arthur Ibbetson |
| cut | John D. Guthridge |
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The heist movie The Gentlemen Burglars Do Themselves is a British crime comedy directed by Basil Dearden from 1960.
content
Colonel Hyde is angry and disappointed. He was released after 25 years in Her Majesty's Army . In order to get revenge, he looks for a team of also dishonorably discharged from the British Army, meanwhile decrepit former officers. All specialists in their field. A demolition master , a quartermaster, and others. With them, Hyde wants to steal over a million pounds in a bank robbery . The first thing they do is steal weapons and equipment from an army base and disguise it as an IRA operation . In the following weeks they prepare for the mission. The robbery went off without any problems. However, a boy makes a note of the number of one of their stolen vehicles. After a boozy victory and farewell party, one after the other the team is caught by the police.
Remarks
The film is based on the novel of the same name by John Boland . Bryan Forbes based script was nominated for BAFTA .
What is astonishing for a film of this time is the irrelevant portrayal of a homosexual - Kieron Moore plays a homosexual as Stevens, who was therefore released from the army and is now blackmailed - and a general, almost frivolous representation of sexuality in various scenes.
The crime comedy was received almost euphorically by the critics and the film is considered one of the great classics of British film history. He was a major influence on later films on the same subject ( Frankie and his cronies , Ocean's Eleven ) and on British comedies in general. Later critics even referred to the film as carry-on-esque , referring to the carry-on… films by Gerald Thomas . With Norman Rossington , Cyril Chamberlain and David Lodge , only three actors in the series appeared in small roles.
Reviews
"Enjoyable crime comedy, characterized by subtle humor and Anglo-Saxon irony, played excellently."
literature
- John Boland : The burglars are honored. Detective novel (OT: The league of gentlemen ). Super-Krimi, Volume 65. Xenos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 1978