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Newcastle backgrounds, zoom lenses homing on the armoured-van until it is crushed between a truck carrying concrete slabs and the gang's ramming truck, and a forceful performance by Tom Bell as the most aggressive of the crooks. From then on, however, the producers – perhaps painfully aware that bank-robberies have become a humdrum, everyday hazard in filmgoers' lives – appear to be celebrating their graduation from the second-feature thriller by throwing into their stock brew just about every ingredient known to the manual of classic melodrama. Anonymous letters flop down upon the door-mat; guilt complex is proclaimed with the tics and perspiration more usually associated with the German silent cinema; knock-out drops and poison are dispensed with
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