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Payroll (1961)
Director: Sidney Hayers
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Treading Tyneside territory a decade before Get Carter, this crime thriller features a gang of unlikely Geordies as the target of the vengeance-seeking widow of a security guard killed in a factory payroll heist. Nerve-ends snap a little too patly on cue as the noose tightens, but the fresh use of provincial backdrops (part of the British cinema's belatedly sudden discovery of 'the North') and the oddly assorted casting exercise their own fascination.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Sidney Hayers
Producer: Norman Priggen
Cast: Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, Billie Whitelaw, Kenneth Griffith, William Lucas, Tom Bell, Barry Keegan, Joan Rice full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 105 mins
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