The Bank Raiders

The Bank Raiders
The Bank Raiders
	Original British quad poster
Directed by	Maxwell Munden
Written by	Brandon Fleming
Produced by	Geoffrey Goodheart
Starring	Peter Reynolds; Sandra Dorne; Sydney Tafler
Cinematography	Henry Hall
Edited by	Inman Hunter
Production; company	Geoffrey Goodhart Productions (as Film Workshop)
Distributed by	J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors (U.K.)
Release date	October 1958
Running time	62 mins
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Bank Raiders is a 1958 British crime film directed by Maxwell Munden and starring Peter Reynolds, Sandra Dorne and Lloyd Lamble.^[1]^[2]

Plot[]

Terry, a small-time hoodlum, is the driver in a successful bank robbery. He gets his share of the loot and is told to lie low. Instead, he goes on the town with Della, a gorgeous, but greedy, party girl. Terry is questioned and released by police. Bernie Shelton, the gang boss, kidnaps the only witness. Then he sends his goon (Linders) to kill Terry, but Linders gets shot instead. With police after him, Terry seeks shelter in Della's apartment. When Della learns that Shelton, a man who spurned her, was behind the raid, she promises to run away with Terry, if he'll confront his boss at gun-point to get the rest of the loot^[3]

Cast[]

Peter Reynolds as Terry Milligan
Sandra Dorne as Della Byrne
Sydney Tafler as Bernie Shelton
Lloyd Lamble as Detective Inspector Mason
Rose Hill as Landlady
Arthur Mullard as Linders
Tim Ellison as Jack Conner

Critical reception[]

Radio Times called it "A dismal B-movie...Designed as something to have on the screen while the queue was being let in to the cinema, it's cheap and cheerless wallpaper, though connoisseurs of early TV sitcoms might relish the sight of heavyweight Arthur Mullard, who usually turned in performances as the village idiot";^[4] while Allmovie wrote, "Bank Raiders delivers value for money in its brief 60-minute time span."^[5]