Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
Frank Forsyth
- Inspector Gale
- (as Frank Forsythe)
Alastair Hunter
- Bank Manager
- (as Alistair Hunter)
Christopher Banks
- Vicar
- (uncredited)
Ernest Blyth
- Guest at Eastbourne Hotel
- (uncredited)
Patrick Jordan
- Police Sergeant
- (uncredited)
Sam Kydd
- Railway Inspector
- (uncredited)
Toby Lenon
- Hotel Porter
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaFirst feature film of Peggy Mount.
- GoofsThe large poster in the Travel Agent window reads Carribean instead of Caribbean.
- Quotes
Alec Johnson: My names Johnson - have you got a room to spare?
Mrs. Larkin: Just for yourself?
Alec Johnson: I said my name was Johnson, not Smith!
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Hour: Failure at Launch (2011)
Featured review
John Gilling's engaging, well-acted B-Thriller is a likeable enough time-waster
Gifted Hammer Films director John Gilling, when not putting the wind up British cinema audiences with his grisly Gothic shockers filled with reptilian fiends, and singularly ghoulish zombies, also made a number of serviceable, low budget crime thrillers in the 1950s, his considerable versatility put to nimble use in the noirish potboiler 'The Embezzler'. This is, arguably, one of the more compelling examples of John Gilling's woefully neglected cops n' robbers oeuvre. In this specific instance, the existential misfortunes concern a weary, hen-pecked bank clerk Henry Paulson (Charles Victor) who is given a rather grim prognosis by his G. P which galvanizes this broken, grey little man into an extraordinarily cavalier act of larceny, the dramatic aftershocks thereafter making John Gilling's engaging, well-acted B-Thriller a breezy enough time-waster. It's aesthetically pleasing feature, featuring melancholic views of a decidedly more austere, glum-looking Eastbourne than one might have expected! While not exactly essential viewing,'The Embezzler' has a cogent text, a genuinely sympathetic protagonist in the light-fingered middle-aged misfit Paulson, and some terrifically tense interludes, plus the frequently heated exchanges between the no less shady, altogether eccentric hotel patrons provide some additional fizz!
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- May 24, 2022
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- Flucht nach Eastbourne
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- Runtime1 hour 1 minute
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- 1.37 : 1
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