This time around the Childrens Film Foundation come closer to home by setting their latest adventure in London's West End were a gang of crooks are breaking into a bank from the basement of a branch of British Home Stores.
These particular baddies are rather more serious than usual, employing high-tech devices like power drills and walkie-talkies; although (SLIGHT SPOILER COMING:) that doesn't spare their boss the humiliation of getting doused with a hose-pipe.
Many of the team that made it were Ealing veterans like director Michael Truman, composer Tristan Carey (who combines a jazz piano & clarinet score with occasional avant garde electronic elements) and cameraman Geoffrey Faithful (who makes good use of the visual possibilities of a half-built building of the kind that London was then currently awash with).
Among the usual familiar faces the biggest surprise is a fleeting glimpse of the tragic Janet Munro.
These particular baddies are rather more serious than usual, employing high-tech devices like power drills and walkie-talkies; although (SLIGHT SPOILER COMING:) that doesn't spare their boss the humiliation of getting doused with a hose-pipe.
Many of the team that made it were Ealing veterans like director Michael Truman, composer Tristan Carey (who combines a jazz piano & clarinet score with occasional avant garde electronic elements) and cameraman Geoffrey Faithful (who makes good use of the visual possibilities of a half-built building of the kind that London was then currently awash with).
Among the usual familiar faces the biggest surprise is a fleeting glimpse of the tragic Janet Munro.