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The Breaking Point (also known as The Great Armored Car Swindle for the US release) is a 1961 second feature British crime film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Peter Reynolds, Dermot Walsh, Joanna Dunham and Lisa Gastoni. The screenplay was by Peter Lambert based on the 1957 novel by Laurence Meynell.
It was one of several British crime films starring Reynolds.




Plot


Eric Winlatter works at a currency printing company. When the company wins a contract to print banknotes for the Middle East state of Lavadore, he is persuaded to help revolutionaries hijack the currency shipment. Cherry, his neglected wife, becomes suspicious and tells journalist Robert Wade. Eric is killed when he falls out of the villains' escape plane.




Cast


Peter Reynolds as Eric Winlatter
Dermot Walsh as Robert Wade
Joanna Dunham as Cherry Winlatter
Lisa Gastoni as Eva
Jack Allen as Ernest Winlatter
Brian Cobby as Peter de Savory
Arnold Diamond as Telling
Eric Corrie as Wilson
Desmond Cullum-Jones as Evans
Geoffrey Denton as debt collector
Richard Golding as Mintos
John G. Heller as Mel
Gertan Klauber as Lofty
John Lawrence as security officer
Mercia Mansfield as Ernest's secretary
Charles Russell as Cappel




Critical reception


Variety said the film's greatest strength was its brevity."
Kine Weekly said "Taut crime melodrama, unfolded against a convincing London backdrop."
Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A waste of one of Laurence Meynell's better novels, this trimmed to the bone thriller has little to offer apart from a well-staged gambling party sequence, a speedy climax and some desultory rough-and-tumble."
The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 1/5 stars, writing: "If stars were awarded for plot contrivance, this low-budget thriller would be well into double figures. There's a banknote printer with a gambling debt, revolutionaries with a counterfeiting plan, an armed robbery, a bomb, a touch of adultery and a speeding plane finale. Not one character rings true nor is one fragment of the storyline credible."




References






External links


The Breaking Point at IMDb

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