William Hartnell

Betty McDowall

Eddie Byrne

George Mikell

Michael Ripper

Victor Brooks

Tim Turner

Ivan Craig

Howard Lang

Ian Fleming

Sylvia Davies

Frank Forsyth

Brian Phelan

Michael Collins

Dan Cressey

Garard Green

Charles Lamb

Stanley Meadows

Jack Sharp

Richard Shaw

Pauline Shepherd

George Spence

Robert Vossler

Joe Wadham

Montgomery Tully

Walter J. Harvey

Barbara Barnard

Jacques de Lane Lea

Bert Pearl

Claude Hitchcock

Gus Drisse

Evelyn Gibbs

Philip Martell

Yvonne Richards

John Sherman

Maurice J. Wilson

Don Banks

Jim Connock

John Earl

George Claff

Crime

Drama

Jackpot

Grand National Pictures

Eternal Films

Renown Pictures

United Kingdom

Carl Stock, a foreigner and an ex-convict has illegally returned to London. He is upset to discover his wife has moved on and does not want him back.

Carl plans to crack a safe in 'The Jackpot Club'. He enlists the help of former safecracker Lenny Lane who now runs a coffee shop.

They rob the club of £6,000 but shoot a policeman dead while making their getaway. Both the police and the club owner try to track them down.

This is a low key crime thriller and a rarely seen one. It features William Hartnell playing the detective trying to catch the bad guys. He usually played military types or low rent villains until he got cast in Doctor Who.

The print quality of the film is not very good, but it is a pleasant and cheaply made B movie.

CinemaSerf

George Mikell ("Stock") takes the fall for a London gangster and when he gets out of prison after over a year of hard labour, returns to Eddie Byrne ("Sam Hare") to get his share. Nothing doing, so he determines to team up with a former safe-cracking friend and help himself to the £6,000 in his safe at the "Jackpot Club". They are successful but as they escape, they kill a vigilant police constable. The police and the gangster are now both on the trail of the robbers. It's quite a decent crime thriller; a few twists and turns though also some pretty obvious plot holes. Michael Ripper is quite convincing as the cowardly safe cracker "Lenny"; William Hartnell is also good as ("Supt. Frawley") as is Betty McDowell as the estranged wife who has long since found a new beau. Nothing new, but it's an engaging low-budget Monty Tully effort.

English

Jackpot (1960)