The Big Job

1965

Action / Comedy / Crime / Mystery

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 43%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 43% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 1020 1K

prison stolen money black and white police station bank robbery old gang

Plot summary

A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.

Director

Gerald Thomas Photo
Gerald Thomas

Top cast

Joan Sims Photo
Joan Sims as Mildred Gamely
Gertan Klauber Photo
Gertan Klauber as Milkman
Sylvia Syms Photo
Sylvia Syms as Myrtle Robbins
Jim Dale Photo
Jim Dale as Harold
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815.47 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 28 min
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1.48 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   hr   cz   dk   nl   fi   gr   hu   it   no   pt   ro   ru   es   sv  
24 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by crumpytv 7 / 10

A Carry On film in all but name!

Silly story, silly characters ... very watchable.There is no let up in the pace of the dialogue and action throughout and there are many amusing moments.I liked the twist from the Carry On films where the women (Sylvia Syms and Joan Sims) are lusting after the men who are just not interested and too busy planning The Big Job even on their wedding nights - "Are you coming to bed?" "What for?"
Reviewed by Spondonman 7 / 10

Apparently money doesn't grow on trees even when it's planted there

Or, Carry On Where You Left Off. This Rogers/Thomas British comedy used to be on UK TV regularly up to 30 odd years ago, along with other films such as Two Way Stretch. While that and many others still get shown this has got forgotten, it's not hard to see why: it's sub-Carry On humour in dreary black and white surroundings with only some of the usual cast.Bumbling gang of crooks steal £50,000 in 1950, get caught, hide the loot in a tree, go to jail, get out 15 years later to find the tree now in the backyard of a new police station. And so it goes on – how to get that money out with various ultimately slapstick ideas conjured up by George The Brain (the inimitable Sid James). His over-loyal gang of Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery and Lance Percival back him up through thick and thin, mainly thin – it might have been an interesting plot move for Percival to have to get married as well…What a shame Deryck Guyler didn't get some more lines. There's some good mundane and comedic ideas buried in here, I thought the film was pretty cool when I was 11 but that world has long gone. The only 3 women in this were all sex-mad superficial stereotypes. Favourite bits: Sid continually demanding tanners for the telescope; hiding the earth from the digging a la Great Escape, some typically coarse – but side-splitting – solutions to that particular problem! Flat humour for most of the film, just when it seemed to be getting going it was gone – obviously abiding by the maxim to always leave 'em asking for more.Especially for any Brit over 40 it's easy viewing, an enjoyable familiar farce featuring familiar faces.
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