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Payroll is a British film of genre Drama directed by Sidney Hayers released in USA on 20 may 1962 with Michael Craig
Payroll (1961)
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Add to a movie listPayroll is a 1961 British crime thriller starring Michael Craig and Françoise Prévost. Directed by Sidney Hayers, it was based by screenwriter George Baxt on a novel by Derek Bickerton. The story is about a gang of villains who stage a wages robbery that goes disastrously wrong.
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Four crooks (Johnny Mellors, Monty, Blackie and Bert) plan and execute a robbery on a payroll van, using the inside knowledge of Dennis Pearson, who works as an accountant at the firm concerned. Pearson is under pressure to support his wife Katie (Françoise Prévost) who demands a higher standard of living. However, the van driver, Harry Parker, is killed during the heist, whilst Bert is fatally wounded by Parker's colleague Frank Moore. Nevertheless, the gang manage to get away with £100,000.Actors
Michael Craig
(Johnny Mellors)
Françoise Prévost
(Katie Pearson)
Billie Whitelaw
(Jackie Parker)
William Lucas
(Dennis Pearson)
Kenneth Griffith
(Monty)
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