Stanley Baker

Tom Bell

Helmut Schmid

Patrick Magee

John Phillips

John Westbrook

Kenneth MacKintosh

Michael Ripper

Stephen Lewis

Frank Gatliff

Rio Fanning

Jack May

John Rees

Michael Robbins

Fulton Mackay

Anthony Bate

Glynn Edwards

William Marlowe

Roddy McMillan

Garfield Morgan

Rodney Bewes

Geoffrey Palmer

John Barrett

Mark Burns

Tom Adams

Richard Bidlake

David Conville

Douglas Blackwell

David Courtney

Clifford Cox

Barry Keegan

Stanley Meadows

Derrick Sherwin

Peter Welch

Frank Coda

Michael Collins

Reginald Marsh

Cliff Owen

Robert Sharples

Ross MacKenzie

Gilbert Taylor

George Maynard

Jim Morahan

Terry R. Owens

Benny Royston

Gerald Gibbs

John Jympson

Bernard Sarron

Roger Marshall

Paul Ryder

Nicolas Roeg

Crime

Drama

A Prize of Arms

George Maynard Productions

United Kingdom

CinemaSerf

Stanley Baker is the aptly named "Turpin" in this heist caper. He, alongside his pals "Swavek" (Helmut Schmid) and "Fenner" (Tom Bell) come up with plan to swipe the payroll from an heavily guarded army barracks. The plan is pretty ingenious and relies largely on the sheer brassed-necked audacity of the plan. So many people in uniform; coming and going; slipshod security checks; nobody really wanting to check up too closely on any one else... Surely they've a fighting chance of success? Well it takes way too long to get going and there are simply too many distractions in the plot to sustain the interest. Baker usually has an effectively snappy method of delivering his dialogue, and that works a bit here but for the most part it's all just a bit busy without achieving very much. Plenty of pyrotechnics on show; especially at the end but it's, sadly, a film I don't know that I'd bother watching again.

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